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There is not the infrastructure to support these houses. The school is at capacity and the doctors over subscribed. The level of additional traffic will be unsafe, the single lane road is not suitable for more road users. The addition of more houses to Coltishall will ruin our beautiful village.

Traffic issues in village at peak times, congestion on Rectory Road and Westbourne Road, accident record ignored.
Cynical application to access whole site (30 houses probably never were viable) so more intrusion vehicle movements.
Few jobs in village so home occupiers will commute .
Mains services restricted capacity and not reliable with five failures on last two years plus main sewer recently blocked flooding a business.
Lack of capacity at school and doctors'.

I do not agree that outline planning permission should ever have been passed for this site, It is the route to school for children from Ling Way on an already busy and unsafe road. Traffic in the village has increased hugely since the NDR (see EDP report). This has changed since the original planning decision and thousands more homes are proposed in surrounding towns and villages.
Schools and doctors surgery do not have places and services and employment opportunities are limited.
And it is a lovely field next to a tourist attraction that sells itself on the beautiful scenery.

It is my belief that the proposed development at Rectory Road, Coltishall will spoil our beautiful village. The additional houses on the greensite by the railway line will be an eye sore and the traffic those houses create will make the small road towards ling way and the hill very dangerous. The local school is already at capacity and the doctors is over subscribed. The village does not have the infrastructure for these new houses and their residents.

.Rectory Road is full of Victorian housing that clearly didn’t include the need for on road parking in its design making this a largely single lane road.

I drive my kids to school because I won’t have them cross the B1150 to walk to school on Rectory Road themselves due to the ridiculous volume of traffic that the NDR now delivers to our villages of Horstead and Coltishall (it was bad enough before the NDR). Accompanying the children on foot to and from school every day would take 2 hours out of my working day which I cannot afford to give. So we drive to School and park in the village hall car park when it’s not full, or the football pitch car park - when it’s not full and then on the road as a last resort - it’s mayhem. There aren’t enough parking facilities around the St Johns Close / Rectory Road area to accommodate all the users at the moment without significant personal risk, never mind adding to the problem by introducing more road and pavement users; the roads are narrow, the pavements are narrow (often walking two side by side because there are a number of children between the ages of 2-5 that need to hold their parents hand at the St John cross point in a bid to keep safe).

This housing expansion on Rectory Road cannot be passed in all good conscience unless these matters are addressed so that the safety of 200+ children of the primary school, 30+ users of the preschool, vulnerable users of the doctors surgery and existing home dwellers in Rectory Road are not subjected to increased risk to their personal safety on a daily basis.

Profit should not be prioritised over the health and safety of people. The people promoting this development are interested in making money, not solving the areas housing expansion needs. Let’s build more houses (and fund extensions to the school and doctors surgery to better accommodate the increasing local population), but do so in safe places with some element of future proofing, not in areas that have already outgrown any future-proofing that may have been put in place when they were built 20+ years ago.

I put it to you that the councillors as public servants have a duty to ensure no such development is passed without due consideration to the benefit and safety of the current users and dwellers of this area. That they should be so confident in their conviction that the motion passed will not compromise the safety of the current users of this area to the extent that they would be personally accountable should they be proved wrong. That is a conviction I would trust and is not one that I would undertake based on the current proposal.

An already busy road will become even busier, close to a playing field and school, which is also at capacity, as is the Dr’s surgery.

I have lived in and around Coltishall since 1985 And run business in Horstead for 25years having viewed what is happening in Coltishall as very alarming Rectory road is not suitable for any form of large development it chaos now The knock on effect for HORSTEAD no room at the school no room at the doctors no room on the already poor bus service. And for the all ready overloaded B1150 this is just being RAILROADED THROUGH. A meeting is needed with the hierarchy of the GNLP on site perhaps at 3pm when it’s pick up time from the school.

This greenfield site was outside the settlement limit and approved in the face of widespread local opposition. No plausible plan for managing construction traffic or resident traffic has ever been presented. Site parking will also overwhelm local residents. The road network is already dangerous with blind junctions at one end, a humpback bridge in the middle and one of the most dangerous junctions in Norfolk onto the B1150. Village services cannot cope with the massive growth of Coltishall (50+ houses OUTSIDE Local Plan in 15 years with more to come). Broadland's own housing data shows no need for this development.

Unlike other allocation policies there is no reference to water efficiency forming part of the design

Please also see comments relating to Policy 2 of the Sustainable Communities of the Strategy document.