GNLP0090

The Strumpshaw Neighbourhood Plan considered the viability of part of this site for a community hall and 10 dwellings. Norfolk County Council ruled this out because of the danger of accessing the main road (Long Lane).
Building on this site would reduce the visual separation between the core of Strumpshaw and that part of the parish adjacent to Brundall. Building on the whole of this site would very significantly change the character of Strumpshaw and would have a poor effect on local services.

The Strumpshaw Neighbourhood Plan identified this site as informal green open space, which is important to maintaining the character of the village. There is a covenant on this site restricting development to one dwelling.

Strumpshaw Parish Council objects: Policy 6 of Strumpshaw's Neighbourhood Plan seeks to protect this site as green space. It is believed that there is a former pit on the site and there would be drainage issues

We can be flexible on the number of houses in order to meet the Local Plan requirements for a settlement of this size and any constraints raised. The HELAA assessment is incorrect as it is not high quality grade 2 agricultural land. It is grass scrubland of low quality having previously being used as quarry. Similarly loss of green space is minimal as village is surrounded by agricultural land. It is a perfect infill site in the middle of the village, it is not an encroachment into agricultural land or towards other settlements. There will be no adverse impact on character of the village and any development will involve a sensitive and sympathetic improvement to the streetscape.

Dear sirs

I wish to register my comments on the GNLP and more specifically to the proposals relating to Strumpshaw.

I refer specifically to the developments identified on plan numbers GLNP
0090, GLNP0521 Mill
Road, GNLP0215 Long Lane

I consider that these locations are unsuitable for the following reasons.

1. Inadequate infrastructure in sewerage, surface water drainage (especially in the light of global warming phenomina).

2. Poor highways facilities, the roads are of inadequate width for increased traffic and there are inonadequate and mostly no pedestrian pavements in these locations.

3. Infrequent public transportn namely an hourly bus service which ceases early evening.

4. Strumpshaw has very little and indeed diminishing employment.

5. Strumpshaw has no school or shops.

6. The local doctors surgery serving this area in Brundal is already struggling to cope under pressure of new developments and finding it is unable to recruit adequate qualified staff.

7. Over the next 50 years scientifically backed date indicates that if the global birth rate continues at the same rate there will be inadequate agricultural land for food production to satisfy demand.

8. These proposals will erode the visual separation from the adlacent villages and therefore the individuality and identity of each village.

Strumpshaw already suffers from an increase over the years of minor areas of flooding in certain locations partly due increased events of heavy storms and the added recent developments in Lingwood, if the proposed sites are developed this will only serve to further aggravate an already growing problem

For the above reasons I can see little justification for developing these locations.

Yours Sincerely

M.F.Manley

Dear Sir

I wish to raise strong objections to the allocations in STRUMPSHAW listed below:

GNLP 0215 extending the boundaries identified in the Village Local Plan GNLP 0521 as above GNLP 0090 as above GNLP 0277 as above

The village of Strumpshaw is tightly defined by its Village Plan in order to keep its identity. Any breaches of the boundaries would inevitably lead to merging with Lingwood to the East and Brundall to the West. There is no Post Office or shop and one Public House and the parish Church and no other facilities. There is fierce local pride in our Village and long may it remain so.

A small residential development is being built on a former light industrial site and another small development will take place in association with a Village Hall. These should be the limit of development in the Village.

Yours truly

Sheila Ashford J.P.