This site is not the preferred site. Views of the medieval church will be compromised if the whole width of the site is used. This is Grade 1 agricultural land so it would be preferable to use a smaller area to the right for building, as per the original plan, and parkland to the left of the site. The widening of Post Office Road would take away the natural traffic calming effect it has at present, we can’t have traffic calming measures put in as we are a dark village. Flooding, drains, sewers are already an issue in the area.
The figure of 50 - 60 can be reduced if we use the brownfield site at the Old School Site on Chapel Road, (outline 22-25). The first permission 20140979 was an outline permission given on 22/4/2015 so this would have lapsed on 21/4/2015. The later permission 20190278, again outline, was given permission on 16/10/2019. The GNLP housing figures are based on the permissions as at 1 /4/2019; so the former school site was not included in the GNLP figures (as the first permission had lapsed and the second permission had not been given). Therefore it should be taken into account in considering the scale of development in Lingwood. With the original permission, Lingwood & Burlingham Parish Council were given the Nursery Building to try to encourage a Doctors Surgery to service the Village, this has been taken away.
With any development in Lingwood, Blofield Road will need to be made wider instead of narrow with passing places. Increased housing of 50 - 60 on top of our 44 commitment will be too much for the School to take.