GNLP2104

Quaker Wood, Factory Lane, Roydon adjoins the eastern boundary of GNLP2104 and has been successfully run by our organisation as a fully accessible wildlife and community site since 2008. Any development of adjacent open countryside would have a serious and detrimental impact on it's conservation, educational and recreational value.

We request the earliest opportunity to be consulted on the incorporation of wildlife allocation to ensure permanent and adequate links between Quaker Wood and the larger rural environment.

GNLP0362 adjoins the northern boundary of Quaker Wood and raises equally serious concerns. Please add these comments to your records.

Roydon is a tiny little village, we only have a pub, a garage and a primary school. There is no infrastructure to support another 1250 houses in a small village. The roads are of very poor quality due to the installation of power cables 3 years ago. We don't have any doctors or a pharmacist or even a village shop the huge amount of houses proposed would put an appalling strain on a village that basically has nothing. This proposal would also vanish the boundry between Roydon and Diss.

The village of Roydon does not have the infrastructure for such a large proposal. Nor does Diss. Victoria road already suffers from consistent traffic congestion and pollution. The local doctors, schools and police are not equipped for this size proposal- just to name a few!! I moved to Roydon to live rural and a development such as this would force us out of the area. Diss already has a large build development underway, close to the train station, it cannot cope with anymore without serious investment in infrastructure. To suggest just a housing development be built is just short sighted and poor planning. The 1066 is also heavily used with HGV's and to propose this new development exit onto shelfanger road to further congest the town centre and Victoria road would not be viable as it would increase an already congested area. My family and I respectfully object to this huge proposal.

I object wholeheartedly. 1) this is not DISS actually this is incorrect as infact this land is Roydon land? so how can this even stand up as a proper proposal as under Diss which is incorrect. 49 new hectares of housing on Roydon land is ludicrous as this is an entire new village!!! if you correlate the amount per hectare that would be housing at over 1000 houses proposed - ludicrous beyond belief!!. Coming out on to roads that are not at all suitable like Louies lane. Already stretched services like doctors and schools in the area to boot, This proposal should be thrown out immediately as is listed incorrect anyway.

Current day fluvial flood zones 2 & 3 inside the northern boundary of the site. Surface water flood flow path running west to east through the central part of the site.

This proposal to sacrifice valuable arable farming land for intensive residential housing, losing sustainable resources that support the UK economy just for the short-term financial benefit of a few, is preposterous.
The impracticality of introducing even a fraction of residential development in the proposed location is enormous. Adjacent roads are at capacity, and considerable new services would be required. Unacceptable, irreversible degradation of the environment would ensue for the neighborhood and residents.
Infrastructure requirements would overwhelm the containing rural parish of Roydon. Housing development in places in Diss already imposes >30 minutes reaching the main road by car at times.

Apart from the lack of vehicle access in the area the lack of GP, School and other amenities just about sums up the complete lack of planning normal for the area as a whole.What has happened to the Green Belt?

It would be irresponsible to allow houses to be built in this beautiful rural area. Diss is already growing out of control. Roads are congested, medical facilities are over stretched and banks and the post office are threatened with closure. We don't need more houses, cars or people to make demands on our limited resources. We must preserve our valuable countryside for our own well being and for that of future generations. What is lost now will be gone for ever.

Too many houses. Not enough infrastructure to support. Factory lane far too narrow. Roads for access already too busy and dangerous let alone the impact of this many new houses. Roads couldn't cope, Diss can not cope, Doctors, dentists can not cope. Totally object. Keep the land green, stop building everywhere!

Do not want a large scale development . This is not acceptable. Roads and community cannot cope

This site is in the Parish of ROYDON not DISS and as such a proposed development of approx. 1250 properties would double the size of the current village. The infrastructure, roads in particular, is not capable of withstanding such a large development. It is assumed that most residents would work outside the area as there are insufficient employment opportunities in Diss, and as such the traffic increase from this development, along narrow country roads, is totally unsuitable. Diss can hardly cope with the traffic at present. The current infrastructure is totally inadequate with regard to schools, medical & road capacity.

Impact on wildlife, safety risk due to too much traffic and not enough infrastructure in place to support so many people moving into the area. Diss needs to remain as Diss, Roydon as Roydon. This development potentially threatens this. We are rural...we want fields and wildlife, NOT more people, traffic and chaos!

Whilst I support building new affordable homes in the area, the current proposal is unacceptable because of the potential scale of the development. The large size of the land available offers the opportunity for too many houses to be considered. Existing physical and social infrastructure could not support such a potentially large scale development. In particular I suggest the following problems will arise :-
1. Access roads surrounding the area would be unable to take the potentially massive increases in traffic. For instance Factory Lane is very narrow with only single car width in places. The knock-on effect on roads further away is also worrying. Victoria Road already becomes extremely congested at certain peak times of the day.
2. An already overstretched health centre in Diss would not cope with such extra demand, making the service they offer considerably worse for all.
3. A heavily subscribed first school in Roydon would have no capacity for such extra demand.

I believe the additional large site 2104 and 0606 on top of what is already proposed for Roydon will put too much strain on the local infrastructure.
The GP's surgery, schools and other services are already stretched.
The roads in this area are also not equipped to manage the large amount of extra traffic that will be generated by this size of development.
I completely understand that houses need to be built and have not commented on the other developments that are in the plan but this latest addition to the plan is too large with too many houses

A proposal of this size is monsterous, the nearby road network not only in the surrounding area, Factory Lane & Louies Lane are clearly not suitable to accommodate such a large increase in traffic, Shelfanger Road is windy and narrow in spots also but further afield Diss is already a traffic nightmare with Victoria Road a car park from 8am to 7pm each day. The GP surgery is already stupidly busy, the sewers in Diss are a disgrace and stink. The nearby Quaker Wood is a real gem for wildlife and education and would seriously be effected by this..

The sheer scale of this development is entirely unsuitable for this location. Services in the town are barely adequate at the moment, even a small development would cause enormous issues.

Additionally, this land has been DELIBERATELY mis-assigned to Diss. It is NOT DISS. It is ROYDON. I can only assume the purpose of this is to allow Diss to expand to meet it's commitments for new house building. Roydon has far fewer commitments to make, and the continued attempts to mis-lable and /or take this land as part of Diss is entirely inappropriate and just plain wrong.

If this consultation does not reassign this land to Roydon it will have committed FRAUD.

I object to this site because of its size and placement. The village is too small with no infrastructure to cope with a massive influx of new homes. It will have a negative effect on the wildlife and the surrounding area with increased traffic and pollution.

Regarding site GNLP. 2104
You have labelled this area as Diss. This is incorrect so is submitted fraudulently.
This land belongs to Roydon, which as a 'serviceed village' has only to take around 14 new homes under the GNLP plan, until 2035.
By labelling this area as Diss you are trying to push more homes onto our village than we can possiably accommodate.
Please rectify your plans to take into account your error in labelling the area, as it stands this cannot be a legal document.

Once again another ridiculous proposal to cram in as many houses into a space as possible.I have to laugh at the fact they are labelled as affordable housing as the ones up by Walcot Green are certainly far from that. Only 1 doctors surgery covering a huge area where you can never get an appointment unless you are dying and 1 High Scholl which is in dire need of repair. Not to mention Roydon Primary school bursting at its seams even with the new classrooms! Victoria Road is a nightmare to use and the congestion and parking in Diss awful.

a) I object to you stating the site as Suitable following the findings on your own 'Suitability Assessment'
b) I object to the traffic effect on Victoria Road and Diss central which has problems now!
c) I object to the effect on the 'Night Sky' and this not being included in your Suitability Assessment'!
d) I would like the opportunity following the 'Night Sky Assessment' to oppose this site on the findings!

This site is in the village of ROYDON so why is it listed under Diss? Roydon cannot accommodate 1250 extra houses - the infrastructure is not there to support a proposal this size - it's ludicrous. There is a pub, garage & primary school. The local roads are not adequate being mostly country lanes & the road to Shelfanger is winding. Roydon is rural, surrounded by green land & home to a number of wildlife species - it should remain this way. Diss itself already struggles with traffic on existing road networks not to mention doctors, dentists, schools etc.

GNLP2104 is a very large site relative to the size of the settlements of both Roydon and Diss. An approximate estimate for the number of houses on this site is 1250 which is considerably more than the whole of the number of dwellings currently in the parish of Roydon, considered a service village. Notwithstanding this, the number proposed is also considered to be of too great a density for a village parish.
Neither Roydon or Diss have currently the infrastructure to support a development of this magnitude, be it transport, healthcare or education.
Specifically, the site has road access to the south on to Factory Lane, Roydon which is a single track country lane. To turn west along this lane from the site there is, after a couple of hundred yards, a junction at an acute angle with Brewers Green Lane, Roydon, which is also a single track country lane. The angle of the junction is such that the visibility is only a yard or two, virtually blind. Traffic turning east along Factory Lane from the site can either access the B1077 via a continuation of Factory Lane or turn North along Louies Lane, another road with a single track section.
The second access point of this site to the road system is at its most easterly point where it abuts the B1077 directly. However, this is close to the S-bend in the B1077 where it crosses a watercourse near Stolleries Farm and will present visibility problems for any new junction placed here.
Generally, egress from this site would be via the B1077 to access any of the other main roads in the area. To reach the A1066 would mean progressing south where there is a pinch point in Denmark Street, Diss and also an already busy crossroads with Roydon Road and St Nicholas Street, Diss, another junction with poor visibility.
Both health and educational facilities in the area are already at capacity and in need of expansion before any development of this size is considered.
Roydon Parish Council consider that this proposal should be rejected for development for the reasons stated.
A decision on this site is considered prejudicial to the nascent Diss & District Neighbourhood Plan (DDNP), of which Roydon Parish is a part. The DDNP will seek to allocate development sites across the Plan area according to local need, as well as viability and connectivity to transport links and services. The comments made here by Roydon Parish Council are without prejudice to the DDNP.

I must strongly object to the planning permission in 49 hectares for 1250 houses in Roydon near Diss.
It would totally destroy the ambience of the village atmosphere of Roydon in that there then would be solid houses between Diss and Roydon taking away the only rural separation of the two settlements. Roydon School is undertaking an extension and with the possible increase of so many families the school would be unable to cope despite this. Other services would also be in jeopardy such as doctors who cannot recruit and are still short of manpower and with so many businesses moving away I don't think it has the available employment opportunities for this number of houses.
Roydon is a village and to suddenly allow so many houses would destroy totally the environment in my view. The local area is building many houses already in Diss and so I would have thought we are creating sufficient demand.
I would therefore implore you to reject this planning application.

Strongly object to this development plan because
Far too many houses proposed
Far too close to important wildlife sites, Quaker wood, Brewers Green Roydon Green
Dangerous to add ANY more traffic to Factory Lane , Croft Lane and Brewers Green Lane ..ABSURD !
That many house would generate need for increased Medical , Social and Educational facilities which are already severely overstretched
Noise, pollution, environmental damage make this a very undesirable building site
Residents moved to be in a rural country side NOT a new village
This was NOT mentioned in the Local Roydon plan otherwise we would have objected at the time

I respectfully object to the proposed development because the land specified is in the small village of Roydon. The position is totally unsuited to any development on this site. There has been a recent hard won debate about the demarcation between Roydon and Diss - long may it remain. Comments already submitted about infrastructure - Healthcare, schools, roads etc has to be seriously considered. The quality of life of residents and visitors of all ages who have worked hard to obtain places like Quaker Wood and Brewers Green County Wildlife Area must be considered for the future of us all.

This would cause excessive traffic along many smaller roads including Brewers Green Lane.
Local infrastructure and resources are all ready struggling to cope.. Schools, Doctors, dentists etc.
Would put pressure on the main routes through Diss which are already struggling with traffic.

As others have commented, this site is far too large for local infrastructure to support, be it transport, health or educational facilities. In my opinion, it does not take much time to consider these obvious facts and reject this application. I am irritated that local people should have to bother to object to such an unsuitable proposal which would appear to be made with the self-interest of the applicant as the only motive for putting forward this land for development, with no consideration for the community of Roydon.

GNLP 2104 is NOT in Diss it is in Roydon
I strongly object to this application for use as housing it would double the size of our village with over another 1000 households, cars and people feeding into our small village community.The plan would inflate already inadequate local road networks and local doctors and other services would just be too stretched.

This would have an adverse affect on Diss and the surrounding areas as there is not the infrastructure to sustain such a large development. The roads schools and medical centres are already at saturation point and this would only impact on this further. For a development of this size to work the town would require new schools and the roads would need to be improved greatly a bypass of the town would help 100%. When new houses are built which I agree are needed you have to look at the bigger picture and improve all amenities.

I firstly need to point out that I'm not a NIMBY
I understand that there is a need for new housing and that land is getting harder and harder to find.
What I don't understand though is why those responsible for passing these planning consents to build more and more houses don't consider that the infrastructure simply can't cope.
We, in Diss, have two GP practices and they are no longer able to cope with the increasing pressures put on them by the increasing number of people wanting to register as they move in to the area. Similarly the schools are suffering, as are every other requirement.
We then have the road network. As mentioned in one of the reports, the A1066 is becoming a bottleneck and cannot cope with the existing traffic, let alone tolerate the potential increase from the new houses being built. Due to this problem more and more drivers are attempting to use side roads not designed for dual flow traffic to get through and miss out the A1066 as far as possible.

As a prime example, I live in the beautifully picturesque hamlet of Walcot Green. A new housing development is currently being completed and the traffic though Walcot Green is becoming heavier and heavier already, and the residents haven't taken ownership yet! We have already had a number of police-attended accidents along this road this year, due to the increase in traffic, and a death of a pedestrian is inevitable due to the speed and duel flow of traffic along a road only designed for a horse and cart. Do we really have to wait unit someone - possibly a child - has to die before anything gets done? This road - like many in Diss - can't cope with the traffic flow - especially at the speeds being allowed at present.

If more housing developments are to be built - as I am sure they will, irrespective of any public outcry - then PLEASE consider developing the infrastructure to cope - from forcing developers to include a GP surgery in their agreement pack, to ensuring all resources are covered. This also means that some roads will have to have restrictions put on them - maybe reducing the speed limits to 20mph - with changes to weight limits, hours of use etc.

What ever happens, please consider those who already live in Diss too!