Comment

Representation ID: 22733

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Pegasus Group

Our client, Halsbury Homes Ltd wishes to comment specifically on the Key Service Centre of Loddon/Chedgrave, given that they are actively promoting a site in the village (Land off Norton Road). The Draft GNLP strategy, notes that Loddon / Chedgrave has a good range of services, good public transport links and is well located between Norwich and Lowestoft to benefit from employment growth, including in the offshore energy sector.
The GNLP Draft Strategy outlines that the Councils would consider increasing the number of allocated sites in ‘Key Service Centres’ and as there are many reasonable alternative sites in these locations. Our client suggests that the Councils should consider additional small and medium-sized sites, across these sustainable locations, which are well related to the form and character of the settlement and are capable of accommodating housing growth. The need to deliver sites in ‘Key Service Centres’ has become more prominent as outlined above with the miscalculation of the standards method figure, and due to the Councils historic under-delivery of strategic sites.
Loddon has one new proposed housing allocation in the Draft GNLP Strategy, which is to the south-east of the settlement (Policy GNLP0312, Land to the east of Beccles Road) for the development of over 180 homes. According to the Draft GNLP Strategy, the proposed site allocation is considered to be “well related to the form and character of the settlement and is less constrained than other sites promoted, which raise access or townscape and heritage concerns.” Land off Norton Road is also well
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related to the form and character of the settlement and is less constrained than other proposed sites to townscape and heritage concerns, given that this proposed allocation would adjoin onto the north western boundary of ‘Land to the east of Beccles Road.’ In addition to this our client’s site is available and deliverable within the plan period, as site access can be secured to the North of the site from Norton Road. There is also some scope to create through access from the proposed allocation of Land to the east of Beccles Road (GNLP0312) to the west. Thereby, the allocation of our client’s would lead to a natural extension of the eastern settlement boundary of Loddon and would crucially assist in providing the Councils with greater certainty over housing delivery over the next plan period.