HINGHAM TOWN COUNCIL COMMENTS - GNLP0395
Hingham Town Council object to any new sites being allocated for house building in revised local plans to 2038 until all existing allocations in current core strategies have been developed.

The Town Council support the decision to deem this site unsuitable for housing development, however the Council consider should that GNLP0395 be allocated for the provision of a cemetery extension and car park (with pedestrian access to the Fairland through Rectory Gardens). Vehicular access could be achieved through GNLP0298 and GNLP0335.
GNLP0395 is documented as being within the 3000m buffer zone to SSSI. In the context of the climate emergency, where several species of wildlife native to Britain are becoming extinct or at risk of extinction the Council are concerned to ensure that housing developments are not built on areas where rare species of wildlife may exist, or indeed, where extension of the urban area will contribute to the depletion of wildlife. A development of a community woodland on the neighbouring GNLP0335 could ensure wildlife habitat is preserved, protected, enhanced and improved.