Draft Greater Norwich Local Plan – Part 1 The Strategy

Comment

Representation ID: 23041

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

Pedestrian Priority within communities – Policy 4 has no mention of providing improvement to the pedestrian network for communities, outside of Norwich. With particular reference to Hingham, nowhere in the town is there a crossing point giving pedestrian priority over the busy B1108 (or any other road within the town).

Public Parking facilities – it is unrealistic to conceive that in a rural area with a limited bus service, businesses within the “Key Service Centre” can flourish without the provision of adequate public parking. It is essential that businesses can encourage and obtain support from visitors to the town from nearby villages. If the small independent businesses within the Hingham cannot flourish, they will close and residents of Hingham will also have to travel further afield to shop. Adequate public parking must be addressed, not only for visitors to the town but those residents that need to access local services and businesses using a car due to ill health or mobility issues.

Town like Hingham to construction of large housing estates on the outskirts of town tend to mean that the people live on those estates to become a separate community. We would suggest therefore that developers provide finance to further develop existing facilities or provide new facilities for the whole community like a car park

Parking facilities for existing community buildings – within Hingham these are insufficient to support growth and to enable these facilities to thrive. The Lincoln Hall/Bowls Club/Library and the Sports Centre parking areas are inadequate in size to accommodate visitors to these venues during busy times, and it is of concern that the venues will lose bookings and revenue if they cannot provide adequate parking facilities for their potential customers.

Support

Representation ID: 23042

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

Hingham Town Council support the policy that “Residential proposals should address the need for homes for all sectors of the community having regard to the latest housing evidence, including a variety of homes in terms of tenure and cost. New homes should provide for a good quality of life in mixed and inclusive communities and major development proposals should provide adaptable homes to meet varied and changing needs”

Comment

Representation ID: 23044

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

The Council would like to raise the a concern regarding the location of social houses within developments. These homes are often for families and are placed on less desirable plots within a development, with rear gardens adjacent to the main road, this will mean that children residing there will being exposed to increased levels of pollution and noise whilst playing in their gardens.

Comment

Representation ID: 23046

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

Having a policy specifically relating to specialist housing in particular to that of older peoples accommodation does not take into account or directly address the needs of older people generally, who reside within general accommodation within developments, for instances people that may wish to downsize from a house to a bungalow, it does not take into account that these people will grow older while in their home and may have greater needs as they age. Therefore ALL development should address the need for residents to have good access to services within the community, and infrastructure within the community be improved sufficiently to be able to provide this, for example adequate footways and pedestrian priority crossing points.

Comment

Representation ID: 23047

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

Whilst the Council believes that there should be no development until the present allocations have been built on it does believe that planners should give careful consideration to allowing more self build across the district and that they should be willing to allow some experimental green initiative building that takes account the need to address climate change/the climate emergency.

Comment

Representation ID: 23048

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

Provision of accommodation for the homeless via a relevant charity .

Comment

Representation ID: 23050

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

The allocation of employment locations should be considered in relation to allocation of preferred sites for housing development – and should be considered how the 2 areas would impact on each other both positively and negatively. In Hingham a preferred site for housing development is sited opposite the designated employment area, only the “positive” of the potential for providing local employment (within walking distance) to residents of the new development has been highlighted. Siting a housing development so close to a “employment area” which is already home to heavy industry can have many negative impacts on residents, with regard to road safety, increased traffic in a confined area, noise and pollution. It should also be recognised that employment does not occur in just one designated area within a community.
There appears to be no time scales with regard to the development of the employment area - i.e when would the jobs be delivered?

Object

Representation ID: 23051

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

Under Section 3 Vision and Objectives - Economy - 116 - references are made to "improved broadband and mobile phone infrastructure" to enable "the growth of small scale businesses, more working from home and remote working". It is important to note that such improvements to infrastructure have long been promised and are yet to materialise – when will these promises be implemented? Existing businesses in Hingham, such as the pub and the solicitors already have problems for example taking payments with card machines.

It is unrealistic to conceive that in a rural area with a limited bus service, businesses within the “Key Service Centre” can flourish without the provision of adequate public parking. It is essential that businesses can encourage and obtain support from visitors to the town from nearby villages. If the small independent businesses within the Hingham cannot flourish, they will close and residents of Hingham will also have to travel further afield to shop.

Adequate public parking must be addressed, not only for visitors to the town but those residents that need to access local services and businesses using a car due to ill health or mobility issues.

Parking facilities for existing community buildings – within Hingham these are insufficient to support growth and to enable these facilities to thrive. The Lincoln Hall/Bowls Club/Library and the Sports Centre parking areas are inadequate in size to accommodate visitors to these venues during busy times, and it is of concern that the venues will lose bookings and revenue if they cannot provide adequate parking facilities for their potential customers.

Comment

Representation ID: 23052

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

With reference to “new retailing” - it is concerning that there is no focus on encouraging, preserving and enhancing retail within the existing high street environment, addressing empty retail premises and assisting existing businesses to flourish.

Comment

Representation ID: 23053

Received: 16/03/2020

Respondent: Hingham Town Council

Use/regeneration of of existing empty retail premises within high street/communities