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Representation ID: 22850

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Crown Point Estate

Agent: Miss Kate Wood

We are concerned that the Plan relies on the, yet to be formulated, South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Sites Allocation document. Without this, there is no evidence that the GNLP’s target numbers can be met, which may well lead to a delay in the GNLP process. Such approach is inconsistent with paragraphs 20 and 23 of the NPPF, which require that Councils make sufficient provision for housing through strategic policies that provide a clear strategy for bringing sufficient land forward.

Despite the representation of housing numbers as a minimum figure, the reality at planning application stage is that sites that have not been allocated will be technically contrary to policy. Additionally, the housing numbers should be sufficient to keep up with additional job numbers, anticipated and indeed promoted by the GNLP to facilitate growth. It is therefore imperative that opportunities to allocate sites for housing are taken. We are promoting land at Octagon Farm for mixed use development, building upon the presence of the business use of the converted Octagon Barn and mindful of the presence of new development on the opposite side of the road and the presence of the site on the edge of Poringland, a high order settlement in the hierarchy which has no proposed new allocations. We consider that this site should be allocated to support sustainable growth.