Object

Representation ID: 21817

Received: 12/03/2020

Respondent: Barford Parish Council

• Barford and Wramplingham PC consider that:
o the environmental sustainability vision (Para 135 subset Environment) which includes reducing impact of travel through concentrating activities close to centres of population (Para 125) and reducing the necessity for transport, and
o Para 120 which highlights the need for good access to services and facilities… are inconsistent with developing village cluster sites in relatively remote locations and where local services are sparse as is the case with Barford and Wramplingham. Wramplingham has no services. Barford has a small primary school and an intermittent, subsidized bus route.
• The increasing pressure on water availability in the Eastern Counties is inconsistent with building more and more houses (particularly in numbers greater than needed).
• The claim that new quality development will be located to minimise the loss of green-field land (Para 132) directly contradicts the policy of allocating and developing Village Cluster Sites, particularly around Honingham and Colton as well as around Barford and Wramplingham at GNLP0552 & GNLP1013 & GNLP0416, as well as the proposed locations of many other proposed sites such as GNLP0006, GNLP0545R, GNLP21255, GNLP0285, GNLP2150 North of Wymondham.
• In addition, these Wymondham sites and the proposed village cluster sites at GNLP0415R-A-G. GNLP0415R-A, GNLP0415R-B, GNLP0415R-C, GNLP0415R-D, GNLP0415R-E, GNLP0415R-F and GNLP0415R-G around Honingham and Colton, and on those around Wramplingham and Barford GNLP0552 & GNLP1013 & GNLP0416, will increase the water drainage pressure on the local rivers Tiffey and Tud, and increase the likelihood of flooding in Barford and Wramplingham.
• The plethora of sites could result in a very large and completely disproportionate number of houses around our villages. • Barford and Wramplingham PC consider that brownfield sites already allocated should be used first (as has happened in Barford), and that there should be a phased approach to new housing so that existing allocations and any brownfield sites are developed before permitting or allocating additional sites to be built on.
• The delivery statement on economic development is remarkably weak, lacking any focus or vision. Maybe house building is seen to be the (circular) economic driver for the local economy rather than stimulation of Industries!