GNLP0337 Land between Fir Covert Road and Reepham Road

I’m not surprised this land is allocated for housing. I have expected this to happen for the last 15 years.
The allocated land is shown as two separate parcel with no linkage between the two and I hope it stays that way.
The position to the roundabout on the Reepham Road needs to be carefully considered so there is no tail back to the Broadland Northway nor towards Drewray Drive.
Both parcels of land currently have permissive paths around them that dog walkers and people use to exercise. I would like to see an increase in the current tree line to allow a path similar to the Greenway Path to be included to allow dog walkers and people to use it.
There is a line of trees across the field nearest to the Reepham Road. This is used by wildlife as a corridor to connect to the hedges on Breck Farm Lane and the embarkments of the Broadland Northway. I regularly see bats and birds flying along the tree line and foxes and deer in the area. I would like to see this tree-line remain and another row to trees planted to maintain this corridor and provide more protection from the new houses.
When Thorpe Marriott was being built there was discussion of a school and doctors. Neither were built.
At the exhibition for the plan in Taverham there was a proposed layout of the site. I noticed there was a link road between the two plots. I would like this link to be removed on the following ground.
The link road would cross Marriotts Way. There is a crossing on Pendlesham Rise and there has been a number of near misses caused by driver ignoring the Give Way signs.
Marriott Way is used regularly by families and individuals for exercise, runners, walkers cyclists and horse riders. The provision of a cross will increase the risk of injury to these users.
The road could become a rat run as people use the road to get to the high school, garden centre and the proposed new supermarket near the garden centre or to avoid the Broadland Northway due to the accident rate and increased traffic when the Wensum link is built.
The provision of a link road would disrupt the wildlife corridor of Marriotts Way and increase the amount of wildlife deaths due to the traffic as the wildlife will not adapt quickly.