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Weston Longville Parish Council are supportive of the sites identified and are opposed to 'windfall' provision outside these identified sites.

GNLP5009 Bawburgh. This 'favoured' site is clearly far less favourable than some of the sites deemed 'unreasonable'. Where is the common sense??. To consider a site at the end of a residential cul-de-sac, close to a primary school, on top of a gas main, alongside a conservation area, with zero local amenities and very narrow access is ludicrous. The Bawburgh site is only 'favoured' because the landowner will gift it to the council in return for positive consideration of other development opportunities. There is a perfectly adequate existing site next to the park&ride on Long Lane in Bawburgh.

The earlier paragraph 13 (Background) identified the Year 1 to 5 (April 2022 to March 2027) requirement to be 31 pitches. Under this paragraph the requirement is 60 pitches in this period. What is the truth?
With particular respect to GNLP 5014 (A47 North Burlingham):-
This site is identified as being delivered in Year 1 to 5, providing 15 pitches. Since the government mandate is to provide 53 pitches in total, and this Plan considers about 62 (there are inconsistencies about this number in the document), It appears that this site cannot be rejected if the Plan is to deliver the requirement.
Given the time, effort and expense expended to date, it is clear that the collapse of the mandated delivery at the first hurdle would be a considerable embarrassment to the consortium of local government that comprise the Greater Norwich Development Partnership. How can the community be assured that this proposed site will be afforded a fair and rigorous evaluation? Why is there local suspicion that this is a ”done deal”?