GNLP0296

This site is the wrong side of the village for so many houses with vehicular access to th A47 having to pass through the village in both directions. 150 plus cars accessing Buckenham Road and onto Norwich Road would be a hazard especially for the families walking to school. Norwich road already becomes congested at the Spa shop/ Chip shop and would become dangerous with extra volume of traffic.
Lingwood has limited facilities - no GP or library, very small shop thus the resulting increased traffic would result in decline in quality of life for all the current inhabitants.

This alternative is not 'reasonable'. Buckenham Road is not a good access point as single track road cannot facilitate extra volume of cars. Spar is already pandemonium as it is- Lingwood can't cope with new developments. A new site this close to Buckenham woods would completely spoil the wildlife here.

We strongly object to this location being considered for development for 3 reasons:-
- The road is too small for that many additional dwellings and creating appropriate access would ruin what is a pleasant view and quiet / safe route for walkers at present.
- It would completely spoil the rural nature of the properties in the near vicinity
- There is lack of facilities to cope with such an increase in dwellings.

If Lingwood has to provide additional housing, a development on this site would have less impact on the village as a whole. It has more access routes - via Brundall/Strumpshaw; from A47 at the White House turnoff; from A47 via Blofield Rd (at present), which would spread the traffic flow through the village rather than channelling it all along Post Office Rd. There is an existing footpath to the school and the site is no further from the school than the Post Office Rd proposed site.

This is an outrageous suggestion. There is a busy park with young children on so a busy road would not be suitable. Also, there would be such destruction to wildlife and the bramble bushes.

This site is too large, 110 homes would definitely be too much for our Village. Infrastructure is not sufficient. The land is to the South of the Village and would encourage traffic through the village to get to it. The site is off two very narrow lanes with little chance of widening from the junctions off Norwich Road.
The figure of 50 - 60 can be reduced if we use the brownfield site at the Old School Site on Chapel Road, (outline 22-25). The first permission 20140979 was an outline permission given on 22/4/2015 so this would have lapsed on 21/4/2015. The later permission 20190278, again outline, was given permission on 16/10/2019. The GNLP housing figures are based on the permissions as at 1 /4/2019; so the former school site was not included in the GNLP figures (as the first permission had lapsed and the second permission had not been given). Therefore it should be taken into account in considering the scale of development in Lingwood. With the original permission, Lingwood & Burlingham Parish Council were given the Nursery Building to try to encourage a Doctors Surgery to service the Village, this has been taken away.

Whilst we do not want further development in Lingwood, site GNLP0296 being the largest of the proposed sites in Lingwood, has the greatest potential to meet future housing targets for many years to come as long as it is developed in phases as opposed to being developed in one go.

We strongly object to this development for many reasons ,
Buckenham Road and buckenham lane are both single track roads with no way of widening at the top from the main Norwich road .
Both these roads ,may I add are extremely difficult to get out of onto Norwich Road with the current volume of traffic that currently use it with out any extra traffic.
The traffic near the spar shop already causes blind spots With the current amount of cars that park there ,and I have seen and heard of many cars being hit whilst parked, With the current amount of traffic going up and down Norwich road
Getting out at Buckenham Road Junction You have to judge alot of speeding traffic going along Norwich Road ,with the added problem of traffic coming out of homelea junction nearly opposite .
If the new proposed development of 110 houses goes ahead this would not be safe for parents and children walking to school as this is a main route to the only school in the village .
This piece of land that has been proposed is grade 1 land but is a flood risk Area ,it harbours much wildlife some of which nest in the hedgerows , there are many deer that graze and families of hares and pheasants .
With the extra traffic a site of this size would create the many dog walkers and families would no longer be safe to walk along these currently quiet and tranquil lanes .
There is currently already a large strain on our GP Surgeries which are based in Brundall or Blofield
only one small village shop A sewerage system that already cannot cope with the current housing volume in the village let alone 110 More proposed houses in one area .
The whole village with such a mass of New properties together ,would spoil this is a village it's going to end up becoming a town !

1. Village infrastructure is insufficient to support a development of this size.

2. The proposed development is on the opposite side of the village to the main A47 access to Norwich and Great Yarmouth/coast, which will result in significant traffic increase through the village including the area around Norwich Road/Chapel Road junction which already represents a major bottleneck in peak hours due to vehicles entering and exiting the parking areas for the Spar and chip shop. In addition to increased disruption, traffic generated will cause significant noise and disturbance to residents of Buckenham Road, Norwich Road, Chapel Road and Station Road, including extended queues of vehicles at both railway crossings throughout the day and around the primary school in peak times.

3. Additionally, the proposed access route via Buckenham Road is narrow and not sufficient for the volume of traffic generated by the development without considerable widening/alteration and the likely destruction of 150+ year old oak trees.

4. The proposed development and associated necessary road widening, street lighting etc. will significantly impair the quiet, rural character of the location, causing disturbance, loss of privacy and visual amenity to surrounding properties on Buckenham Road, Buckenham Lane and Norwich Road, destroying views over open country and having a severe impact on wildlife (deer, hare, barn owls, marsh harriers and other birds of prey) in the adjoining fields and nearby Buckenham Woods.

5. Buckenham Road is also extensively used by dog walkers, horse riders and recreational runners; the volume of traffic generated by the proposed development will represent the loss of a village amenity and significant risk to highway safety in this respect.

I note the point raised by the Parish Council in their objection to site GNLP0296 that the GNLP quota for Lingwood was calculated at a time when initial outline planning permission for the development of housing on the former First School site on Chapel Road granted in 2015 had lapsed, but before a section 106 agreement was completed in October 2019. As a result it appears that the GNLP quota for Lingwood is based on incorrect figures and significantly overstates the need for additional new housing in the village.

See attached for full submission and supporting documents.

Whilst we agree with the overall strategy for the village clusters contained in Policy 7.4, we object to the preferred site and do not agree this is the best option to deliver this amount of housing. The site at Buckenham Road offers a good opportunity with minimal constraints/ impact on the character of the village.