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Not that I'm against new development but the ideal of demolishing 3 Prince Andrews Rd to give an access road for potentially up to 50 new dwellings is ludicrous, Prince Andrews Rd is too narrow and windy to be able to cope with the extra traffic that would be generated by 50 new homes.
If this development is to go ahead then access should ideally be straight onto Fifers Lane.
As a resident on this road for many years I do not want to see an increase in traffic and noise that would be a result from this new development.

1. Loss of green space. A further loss of recreational area for the people of Hellesdon. When I first moved to Hellesdon 20 years ago, we had access to a green area in Diamond Road, which butted onto my garden. Although in the Norwich City area, this was still available to locals for recreational activities but now built over with warehouses. To lose this area off Heath Crescent would be a further loss of our "green and pleasant land". Much better that the local Council be allowed to lease the land for the use of all and the possible reuse as sporting facilities. A further childrens' play area could be provided allowing a safe area for our children to play.
2. Increased traffic in area. A further 50 homes on this site would mean the anticipated use of 100 cars which would add to the already very busy areas of Fifers Lane, which is routinely gridlocked at most times of the day or alternately pushing cars into Prince Andrews Road and Heath Crescent which were never intended for high vehicle use. Increased vehicular traffic in the area and through the Fifers Lane/Cromer Road junction is assured with increased expansion of industry in the Airport area.
3.Increased air pollution as a result of increased and congested traffic.
4. Is it really necessary for the additional houses intended to be built on this site. Hellesdon is already a major house building area with the Golf Course site on going and other areas towards the NDR anticipated.
5. To gain access to this site it is intended that a large family house be demolished in Prince Andrews Road. I would suggest that would be a great loss to the area.

one of the reasons we bought our bungalow was the Jarrolds sports ground backing on to our plot, giving pleasant unspoilt views. Furthermore, this area around the park & ride, airport and NDR is already too congested with traffic. We already have an industrial estate too! The idea of demolishing 3 Prince Andrews Road to gain access is ridiculous - what about the added disruption to the lives of the present occupiers of Heath Crescent & Prince Andrews Rd? Instead of looking for a greedy " extra buck", Jarrolds should support the community which supported them over the years. Disgraceful!!!

OBJECT - I agree with all the comments already made by residents,

I also have concerns over how this will affect the value of my house on Prince Andrews Road.

Prince Andrews Road is already pretty busy and is used as a rat run by speeding motorists, the additional traffic will pose extra risk to my young children. Also the road is heavily populated by elderly who would also be put at risk.

Further risk to all is the undesirables that any building development attracts.

Better would be to open this green land up to the public and regenerate!!

Object:

Having moved into Prince Andrews Road in May it's hard enough sometimes to get onto the cromer road.

My understanding is that the break in Heath Crescent was put up to stop traffic and now you want to make this worse again. And to tear down a perfectly good house to make access to these houses is wrong. I agree with everyone we should be developing this site for leisure use as we don't have much green space nearby.

NO NO NO NO

I see that the area off Heath Crescent, previous the Jarrold's Sports Ground, is on offer for housing. I am afraid I have to oppose this. Surely this should be kept for local amenities considering the lack of green spaces in this area. I understand that Hellesdon already has less than the Statutory requirement of green space, and this could be purchased for the local authority to help make up the shortfall.

I also oppose the proposal for more housing beyond the Hellesdon Boundary off the Reepham Road as Hellesdon is already the most congested suburb of Norwich, this being even before they have built the houses on Norwich Golf Course and the possible further development at Hellesdon Hospital.

There has been no mention of services ie doctors, dentists or High Schools. All schools are already oversubscribed and existing residents are now having to take their children outside the Hellesdon area causing further traffic on the roads and air quality can only continue to get worse.

There is very little faith within the community that any improvements will be made as promises made for Thorpe Marriott for the improvement of reads, doctors surgery and a school which have never materiaised.

I am objecting on behalf of my 94 year old mother-in-law who lives near this site. The objection is to the loss of precious green space, concerns about higher density housing and also increased traffic in the surrounding area.

I object to the proposed development of 50 houses on the Jarrolds sport ground.The logistics of this I find ridiculous. The addition of 50 new houses will have a large impact on the immediate area. I was one of the main contenders in getting Heath Crescent block off to stop the "rat run" from Fifers lane. 50 house will bring (according to national uk figures) another 100 + cars into our neighbourhood which is a very quite and mainly elderly area. Causing another rat run down Prince Andrews Road. The logistics of traffic being added to an already overcrowded road structure at Fifers lane and Cromer road and then leading to the almost permanently congested Boundry junction supports my objection. New houses bring new families - our local schools are fantastic but they are situated on the other side of the Cromer road and as is the norm today most mothers will drive even short distances to school! One only needs to look at the chaotic situation on Middletons lane each morning. The policing of cars dropping off children at these schools and Heather Avenue school borders on dangerous. The upheaval to the area by the services required Gas / Water / Drainage / Electricity will have a large impact on the already dilapidated pavements and roads and upon the people living here.

Many area's are having their green spaces pillaged and this application at Heath Creasent in Hellesdon yet another. Green spaces are the "lungs" of our Villages, no lungs a person /place dies!!!. Whats more is this "infill" needed in Hellesdon taking into account the major works already underway? I also see that a good property is proposed to be demolished and yet the site already has two access points. Many years ago the council closed the Heath Crescent rat run, will it not go against the councils own rules to allow this application. Why don't we just close Norwich Airport and stick 20,000 odd houses on that under used location !!!!!!

Please don't put houses on this site, so short of open space around this part of Hellesdon. We fully support the Parish Council who wants this to be open green space.

We are totally against more house being built on this site. The surrounding roads are extremely busy now and would be much worse with 50 extra houses each probably having 2 cars to add to the traffic. We would support the land being used for a sports facility.

I am a resident which backs on to this area and am dead against this build.
1/ We need to keep parkland for sport in this area as we have not enough this side of Hellesdon
2/ what about doctors surgeries coping we have to wait long enough for appointments now.
3/ Also what about roads and traffic
4/ also the amount of housing and what type because we back on to this.

The proposed access to the site at no3 Prince Andrews Road and extremely close to the junction with Heath Crescent will cause additional difficulty for traffic both exiting and entering Prince Andrews Road (especially during the construction phase) as this junction is already very restricted.
Addition traffic to and from the new site will also cause additional difficulty in traffic flow on Heath Crescent, Prince Andrews Road and Brabazon Road, which are all narrow with sharp corners and considerable parking.
Any additional housing will also cause further problems for over stretched Schools and Doctors Surgeries.

This is the only green site this side of Cromer Road where children can play and also be used a sports field. The entrance and exit road is too close to the corner of Prince Andrews on heath crescent which happens to be a dangerous corner. As people cut it up. Exit from Heath Crescent at moment with all traffic coming along Cromer Road both ways seems to take ages getting out. Imagine what it would be like with another 50 cars also coming from the site. I can see queues of cars at least 10 deep. How long then would it take to exit out to the main road. Not showing on the site plan is another exit leading on to fifers lane means the tennis courts. This would result in no one would suffer from extra traffic in the crescent either side of the barrier.

I am writing to state my opposition to any plans to turn the Jarrolds Sports Ground (off of Heath Crescent, Hellesdon) into housing. We have so little green space left in Hellesdon and this ground needs to be made into an amenity area for local people.

I also very strongly object to the any plans to build more housing north of Hellesdon Medical Centre on Reepham Road. Reepham Road, along with Cromer Road and Drayton High Road, already suffers from gridlock with the current amount of traffic, especially at peak periods. Plus, any new estates on those pieces of land would technically be part of Horsford. Thus Horsford Parish Council and Not our Hellesdon Parish Council would receive the contributions from developers towards the costs of providing community and social infrastructure. But anybody living in these houses would not travel to Horsford for doctors, dentists and schools. They would want to use Hellesdon Medical Practice, our local NHS dentist surgery and Hellesdon schools putting them under even more pressure. Horsford Parish Council would be laughing all the way to the bank. Our pain - their gain.

Along with the golf course and Hellesdon Hospital we would be talking about approximately 1750 new house, probably 3500 adults and 3500 children of various ages. So this would probably mean up to 3500 extra cars. I believe there is too much air pollution in Hellesdon already with the traffic fumes from Reepham Road Cromer Road, Drayton High Road and the Ring Road, not to mention the aviation fumes from the airport.

Yours sincerely worried about the future of Hellesdon

I am concerned about the amount of additional traffic 50 houses will generate on the surrounding roads which are not suitable for large amounts of traffic.

Up to 1000 homes are already due to be built in Hellesdon on the former Royal Golf Club site

In Hellesdon the grassed area know as Jarrold's sport ground accessed from Heath Crescent featured as a development site in the plan, will not be good news at it will take away valuable recreation space which is already in short supply in the parish.

Housing built here will of necessity put additional loading on to both the roads and local infrastructure having a direct impact on local schools, shops and medical facilities together with invisible infrastructure of water drainage and sewage systems already subject to some overloading.

We understand that Hellesdon at the moment has not got good enough green spaces according to government guidelines, if this is the case surely this planning permission should be rejected.

My property was purchased with the benefit of not being overlooked. Any development would spoil this. My garden has been established with mature trees and shrubs that would suffer if needed to be taken down. Wild life has also been encouraged, would be endangered by construction.
I am concerned about my property being de-valued by housing new housing in close proximity. The road leading to the proposed entrance is not designed for construction traffic and would cause problems to both road users and residents. I am opposed to any building on the land that should be used for recreation. However if housing is to be built, it should be sympathetic to the surrounding housing i.e bungalows which would not over look my property.

I am concerned about the extra traffic this would bring to our quiet neighbourhood, as well as the related increased pollution.

This site has been used for many years as a sports facility and should not be taken forward for housing.
There are concerns about the additional traffic movements on Heath Crescent and surrounding roads
that would be generated from a residential development of this scale.
Hellesdon is desperately short of green open space areas so this site must be retained for sports use.

It is the only green site this side of Cromer Road. Where children would. Be able. To play The entrance is too close to Heath Cresent and trying to get get out of Crescent. Would be more difficult ..with af least another 30or more cars coming from the new site. What is wrong with the entrance at the far corner of the site near the tennis courts leading on to Fifers Lane

I am writing in the interests of my grandmother, a resident of Prince Andrews Road.

Any development of this site has the propensity to exacerbate existing traffic congestion issues with the junctions of Heath Crescent and Brabazon Road with the Cromer Road and the use of Prince Andrews Road as a cut through. The whole road layout and access routes would require careful design solutions to alleviate the risk of the quiet, winding suburban route of Prince Andrews Road becoming a busy, disruptive cut through detrimental to the amenity of existing residents.

The Jarrolds recreation site, has valuable amenities for the area. There are no green / leisure sites on this side of Cromer Road and with the increase in housing on Eversleigh Road - all children have to cross a very busy road, the traffic having increased since in the opening of the NDR.
The facilities on the Jarrolds recreation would be good for older people and young and should not become another housing estate. The houses would not be in the affordable area anyway.
Access from Prince Andrews Road, would be very difficult as there is already people using Heath Crescent as parking, for airport office sites and employee's of the Mazda garage on Cromer Road. Getting onto the Cromer Road can take ages, as extra traffic would cause a back up into the access to the Jarrolds site.
Let HPC take on the family and run it for what it is.

-The plan will take away one of the last remaining 'green spaces' in Hellesdon which is already lacking 'green space'.
- Councils should be looking to encourage the use of green spaces for the health and welfare of residents, not 'carpet bomb' them with developments.
-The impact on local residents and traffic flow. The proposal will create a 'rat run' for vans and other vehicles cutting out the traffic lights at the junction of Cromer Road/Fifers Lane increasing localised air pollution. This is exactly the reason the permanent bollards were placed on Heath Crescent, to stop this occurring.

1. There is Inadequate green space in Hellesdon. There will be NO FACILITIES AT ALL FOR YOUNGSTERS TO GO AND PLAY this side of the busy Cromer Road.

2.
a. The access points undermine the closure of Heath Cresent creating a NEW RAT RUN for vans seeking to cut out the junction of Fifers Lane and Cromer Road. This was the reason Heath Cresent was closed in the first place.
b. Knocking down a residential property is unacceptable. A proper access road should be built from the rear of the park along the bund, directly on to the Fifers Lane.

Former Jarrolds sports site off of Fifers Lane.

I strongly object to the development of this site as this is now about the last open space inside Hellesdon what with the development of the Golf site on the Drayton High Road.

As long as I can remember the Jarrolds site has been a communal site whereby football, bowls and tennis have regularly been played over the years and we can ill afford to lose the large open space which could be used for the locals of Hellesdon for varying pleasure uses.

The proposal is for 50 houses which would mean 100+ cars using this area which the roads are simply not equipped to take this additional traffic. As we already have parking issues what with the airport and local businesses which nobody seems to want to tackle. With the NDR opening we now appear to have more traffic building up on the Cromer Rd and we also have a new development called the Firs Park off of the Cromer Rd, and no idea how this additional traffic will affect and worsen the current situation and simply feel that the development of Jarrolds site should be refused for the benefit of the local community.

My partner and I object to the proposal of building of houses on the Jarrold Sports Field Heath Cescent Hellesdon for the following reasons:


1.We have no green areas or playing fields for children this side of the Cromer Road.
2. To demolish a house to put a road in to accommodate more traffic, will reverse the reason the road was closed half way down in the first place. We already have problems with people parking to go to the airport and also employees of the businesses, around this area of Hellesdon, they park their cars here during the day, which has an impact on residents getting in and out of the road.
3.Also I would like to point out that the NDR has actually made Cromer Road more busy with the influx of traffic, that is using the road now. As residents of Heath Crescent, we still have problems getting onto Cromer Road due to the influx of traffic that uses the Cromer Road. Therefore, if these houses are built here, this will just increase the problem further, which Hellesdon, sorely needs right now, as we do not have the road infrastructure. I want to ask why, they have to access the site from Heath Crescent, when it could be accessed more easily from Lansdowne Road, Fifers Lane.
4.I would also like to know where the services i.e. extra Doctors, schools, etc, are coming from, as Doctors and Schools in Hellesdon, as far as I know, are at full capacity.

I object to the building of houses on the Jarrolds playing field. Hellesdon desperately needs green, recreational spaces.in this area of the parish. I am also concerned that there will be even more pressure on the only doctors practice in Hellesdon. This will be on top of the pressure put onto the practice by the homes that are going up on the golf course, Drayton High Rd.

-This site has been used for many years as a sports facility and should not be taken forward for housing.
-Adds additional traffic and undermines the closure of Heath Cresent which is in place to STOP this road being a Rat Run
-The plan will take away one of the last remaining 'green spaces' in Hellesdon and only remaining one that side of Hellesdon,resulting in two main roads to be crossed by children to access nearest remaining green space.
-Hellesdon is already below the National Green space average this proposal would further erode this to detriment of local residences.

I am concerned about the density of housing proposed. I am mostly concerned about the local road situation, Fifers Lane and Cromer Road can not cope with the extra traffic? There are already long Queues on these roads. Also the 2 proposed roads to the site will result in a rat-run again between Fifers Lane and Cromer Road. Both Heath Crescent and Prince Andrews Road are narrow and Prince Andrews Road is twisty. It would be dangerous for children using these roads, one of the reasons for the barrier in Heath Crescent. A better access would be from Fifers Lane. Also concerned the number of HGV vehicles which will block access for existing residents while that the number of properties being built in a confined space. The surrounding buildings are mostly bungalows, any new building should be no higher than those around, otherwise they would overlook the existing housing. Hellesdon needs more recreational land.