Comment

Representation ID: 22916

Received: 13/03/2020

Respondent: Glavenhill Limited

Agent: Lanpro Services Ltd

The site is already promoted through the earlier Greater Norwich Local Plan Regulation 18, Stage A Site Proposals and Growth Options process in March 2018 and assigned the site reference GNLP0294. The site was previously promoted for a mixed-use development comprising in the range of 300-400 new homes (including affordable housing); an 80-bed care home for the elderly/people with dementia; 5 ha of new employment space; some 12 ha of public open space including the planting of 100,000 new trees; and a site for a new Primary School. The previous representations and the subsequent representations submitted under the cover letter dated 19th June 2019 that outline the technical suitability of the site also remain relevant.

Since this earlier promotion, the emerging development proposals have been refined, viability tested and carefully worked-up into a deliverable new residential-led mixed-use scheme. The emerging scheme is explained on the presentation boards attached within Appendix A that also form part of this representation.

The land promoted within Broadland District Council area is immediately available for use.

The promoted scheme is a sustainable mixed-use extension to the village of Badersfield and Scottow Enterprise Park within the former RAF Coltishall airbase. The total 48.8 ha site hereby promoted is cross-boundary with part of the site (some 20.7 ha) located within North Norfolk District Council area.
The 28.1 ha part of the site within Broadland District Council area that is being promoted through the Greater Norwich Local Plan will deliver the following mix of uses:
• Approx. 300 new dwelling units including affordable housing and First Homes;
• Allotment growing spaces for each new dwelling proposed;
• 1 ha of land and sufficient pupils (pupil product from 1,890 existing resident population plus the new future growth) to sustain a new 210 pupil one form of entry Primary School;
• New commercial employment and retail units;
• Large areas of new semi-natural publicly accessible open space;
• 100,000 new trees (also being delivered across North Norfolk District Council area) to capture 200,000 tonnes of CO2 each year;
• Funding to deliver and a resident population to sustain (as start-up, daily spend and contraflow) a new peak hours’ bus service between the site, the existing village of Badersfield, work spaces at Scottow Enterprise Park and the existing Worstead rail station providing a regular extended hours rail service to Norwich City-centre;
• Water positive drainage infrastructure to capture waste-water from the new residential areas for use on site and the surrounding farmland; and
• New HGV route (in combination with land within North Norfolk District Council area) from the B1150 to Scottow Enterprise Park to further diversify employment.

To be clear the majority of the land promoted to deliver the complete mixed-use urban extension is within Broadland District Council area. The key benefits and infrastructure improvements outlined above will be delivered through an allocation in the Greater Norwich Local Plan. The remainder of the site that delivers other linked benefits is being promoted through the emerging North Norfolk Local Plan.

The promoter and land ownership remain unchanged from the Stage A submission in March 2018 and the subsequent representations made in June 2019.