Object
Draft Greater Norwich Local Plan – Part 1 The Strategy
Representation ID: 21896
Received: 12/03/2020
Respondent: Barton Willmore
(Representations made on behalf of KCS Developments)
Spooner Row benefits from being served by a railway station, a primary school, village hall, church and a public house. The settlement currently lacks any shop however development of our Client’s sites can help to facilitate this. Within the adopted Core Strategy Spooner Row is specifically identified as a settlement which may be considered for additional development however the settlement is effectively downgraded within the GNLP by including it within the broad category of “village clusters”.
Please find attached representations.
These representations are made on behalf of KCS Developments in respect of the Greater Norwich Local Plan to 2036.
Our Client is promoting five sites within Spooner Row which can deliver between 173 and 246 dwellings along with community facilities. Spooner Row is proposed to fall within the lowest tier of the settlement hierarchy within the GNLP – the “village clusters” – despite previously being identified as a service village within the Core Strategy. These representations demonstrate that this approach is flawed and underplays the significance of settlements such as Spooner Row.