Object

Representation ID: 21824

Received: 12/03/2020

Respondent: Barford Parish Council

• Barford and Wramplingham Parish Council object to the policy of Village Clusters on the basis that it contradicts the key environmental criteria for sustainability regarding the excessive and unnecessary use of green belt, the unsustainability of adding to villages thereby stretching the use of their already stretched and often minimal services.
• Barford and Wramplingham Parish Council would like to point out that key village cluster site in the Tiffey and Tud valleys around Barford and Wramplingham at GNLP0552 is in the flood plain which regularly floods and is therefore highly unsuitable for house building. This has been highlighted previously but seems to be ignored. It gives the impression that the Authorities are unaware of the increase in rainfall that now occurs as a result of global warming. The area is also an important green infrastructure corridor as highlighted in Figure 8.
• Complementing points made in response to Question 6, the large area of possible developments north of Wymondham (GNLP0525R and thereabouts) 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 result in a massive additional run-off into the local rivers Tiffey and Tud, and increase the likelihood of flooding in Barford and Wramplingham. Barford in particular suffers considerably from high water levels, and additional housing north of Wymondham and around Honingham will exacerbate this. Development in these areas will also ruin the landscape value of the areas.
• Please be fully aware that proposed sites on northern & southern water catchment areas of River Tiffey and River Tud, the confluence of which forms the extreme western tip of our Parish Boundaries, will increase drainage into the rivers so that flooding/increased water flow upstream of the confluence will affect both villages.