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The development for 7 dwellings in School Lane with planning approval 2016/0627 and planning variation 2018/1772 is up for sale:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-60624579.html?utm_content=v2-ealertspropertyimage&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates3day&utm_term=buying&sc_id=26449253&onetime_FromEmail=true

 



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Good luck to whoever considers purchasing this. There are so many outstanding issues in this location that cannot be addressed and which will no doubt be subject to legal challenges now or in the future should these issues be dismissed.



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(From the advert)

The vendor reserves a right of vehicular access and the right to create an appropriate vehicular access between Plots 5 and 6 for possible future residential development on land to the west. 



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Yes, the advert does show the new gap for vehicular access for future residential development, which has been paled-out to accentuate it. When this was subject to a very recent planning variation the agent represented this gap as a landscaped open space for residents in the site plan and possible access for larger machinery. This is remarkable as there has been a long-established access to the field behind for decades, next to plot 1. The planning officer queried about the reason for the gap (see emails), and now it is advertised as developmental access. Not exactly a tree landscaped open space for residents as submitted to the council - the variation got approval.

Planning variation details,  https://info.south-norfolk.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=PD3LXIOQMO300&activeTab=summary

 

 

  



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There is a legal requirement to provide a pedestrian footpath from this development to the end of the road which cannot be delivered. Everyone is aware that this planning approval does not meet its legal obligations under the SNC adopted Local Plan, yet approved anyway despite the recognition by the authorities that the road has recognised highway safety issues. Trying to gloss over the serious situation with general NPPF terms does not diminish it !!

The advert includes an additional cost of £10,000 for infrastructure to be paid by the new owner. This would be the amount that is owed in lieu of the vital footpath. This is a pathetic amount that the SNC Committee decided for the developer to pay considering a footpath to the school would have cost significantly more. The footpath was a statutory condition of this development. Those responsible at the council cannot just walk away from this.

  



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There is clearly something wrong with the site for the owner to be selling it at this stage and who in their right mind is going to buy it with access to farmland required right through the middle of the site - Fingers crossed this means it is less likely to go ahead!!



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By selling off this parcel of land, it will make the new owners responsible for sorting out the drainage problems of that field/development site/highway. The drainage system needs to be unblocked, or a new one built to take the surface water from the ditches down to the river. That would cost some! 



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So Planning approved but all of a sudden the developer has pulled out ?? so the land owners can make a fast buck ( maybe) by selling and the plan to build houses behind revealed as the true intention from the start

Such a pity if this came to nothing NOT, if only for the reason that the planners get a bloody nose as well who have bent over backwards to force this through whilst ignoring their OWN conditions for granting it

Utterly disgraceful



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It is utterly disgraceful. WHo would want to buy this? Too many expensive planning problems to sort out. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. The "experts" and decision makers at the all-powerful council wouldn't listen and got this so totally wrong. 



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It's still up for sale. I'm not surprised. Too many unresolved planning/existing issues and legal queries. How was this location ever approved? Best of luck whoever takes it on.



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This plot is now marketed at both the Diss and Wymondham branches of the estate agent. The additional site map depicting the future road layout between plots 5 and 6 is no longer included in the marketing details. I wonder why!? 



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On Rightmove, it says the land has been sold subject to contract. 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-60624579.html?utm_content=v2-ealertspropertyimage&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailupdates&utm_campaign=emailupdates3day&utm_term=buying&sc_id=26449253&onetime_FromEmail=true



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Karen

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The Council's compliance to Local Plan Policy SP02 for a pedestrian footpath to the school was not resolved before Approval was made at the DMC (Planning) Meeting and still remains unresolved and contentious.  SNC Policy SPO2 also requires a drainage scheme to ensure that no surface water drains off the site, this is also an ongoing problem as the drainage ditch which is part of this site remains blocked.  The blockage(s) are anywhere from the corner of the field, under the highway, under the field opposite, where the drainage water should outlet to the river.  Instead, rainwater collects in the ditch where it seeps into the ground rather than flows away.  Has this Planning Policy been adequately addressed? Although the blocked system may just about cope now, the extra houses will detrimentally impact the system.  Piping this ditch without the costly procedure of rectifying the blockage(s) will increase the surface water flood risk, particularly to existing properties opposite (these cannot be raised up unlike the new properties will be because of the flood risk).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vw_skP8DeNr-_w1Tg6Rx_b2HvngJn-2K/view

This is a secured shared link to the DMC Planning Report dated 1st Feb 2017.  Note paragraph 4.15, Highways Comment on Policy DM3.11, "that planning permission will not be granted for development which would endanger highway safety...".  Therefore it is unlikely that this Planning Permission could ever support this Policy. 

School Lane was a chosen Local Plan Allocated Site for development despite the concerns from residents who engaged in the many Public Consultations.  It was felt that our concerns were ignored during the formation of the Local Plan only to be vindicated by the Highways Authority who had similar highway safety concerns during the planning process.  The Council has a legal responsibility to keep the public safe; how can this Local Plan Allocated Site for development (with planning permission) provide that?  Using the principles of the NPPF, do the benefits of this development significantly and demonstrably outweigh the adverse impacts?

For residents' comments on this topic:

https://spoonerrow.activeboard.com/t64873920/school-lane-development-variation-to-planning-permission-ref/

https://spoonerrow.activeboard.com/t63804063/school-lane-development-20160627-no-pedestrian-refuge-suppli/

 



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There has been a mass of mud in the road in School Lane at this site for some time now. Not nice (or safe) to walk in, especially for young children and parents walking to school. Be interesting to see what happens when any construction starts.



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On Rightmove the property is no longer sold subject to contract and back up for sale. No surprise there.



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