Comment

Representation ID: 23041

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

Pedestrian Priority within communities – Policy 4 has no mention of providing improvement to the pedestrian network for communities, outside of Norwich. With particular reference to Hingham, nowhere in the town is there a crossing point giving pedestrian priority over the busy B1108 (or any other road within the town).

Public Parking facilities – it is unrealistic to conceive that in a rural area with a limited bus service, businesses within the “Key Service Centre” can flourish without the provision of adequate public parking. It is essential that businesses can encourage and obtain support from visitors to the town from nearby villages. If the small independent businesses within the Hingham cannot flourish, they will close and residents of Hingham will also have to travel further afield to shop. Adequate public parking must be addressed, not only for visitors to the town but those residents that need to access local services and businesses using a car due to ill health or mobility issues.

Town like Hingham to construction of large housing estates on the outskirts of town tend to mean that the people live on those estates to become a separate community. We would suggest therefore that developers provide finance to further develop existing facilities or provide new facilities for the whole community like a car park

Parking facilities for existing community buildings – within Hingham these are insufficient to support growth and to enable these facilities to thrive. The Lincoln Hall/Bowls Club/Library and the Sports Centre parking areas are inadequate in size to accommodate visitors to these venues during busy times, and it is of concern that the venues will lose bookings and revenue if they cannot provide adequate parking facilities for their potential customers.