Spooner Row Message Board

The site is still up for sale.

Condition 8 of the Planning Variation allows for works involving the laying of foundations: 

8. No development other than works required for the laying of foundations shall commence until updated details of the surface water drainage system (including flood storage and exceedance flow routes) have been submitted to and agreed in writing by the local planning authority. The development shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details prior to the occupation of the first dwelling and shall be retained as such thereafter. It should be noted that it is the applicants/developers/owners responsibility to ensure adequate drainage of the site so as not to adversely affect surrounding land, property or highway. 

This site still has problematic unresolved issues that would be exacerbated by the development of this site. How did that field ever get allocated as a Local Plan Development Site with so many issues? Perhaps those deciding should have listened to the concerns of local respondents during the public consultations. Hence planning permission was just a formality, but the bottom line is it was still approved without Highway issues being resolved.  

Specific Policy SPO2 for a path from the development to the school cannot be delivered due to narrow road width (yet the policy is a legal requirement I was told).  It is unacceptable for SNC to pass the buck of responsibility to the parish council in the form of a developer's "payment" of £10K for other things in lieu of the path. When I attended the WTC meetings (when Spooner Row was part of the parish of Wymondham), I distinctly got the impression they were not happy about this as the parish Council had strongly objected to the planning application due to its failings.

Then there's the issue of the increased flood risk.......

I walked my dog and saw a ring of plastic orange fencing around a deep hole close to where people walk regularly and in an area that I've never seen flood. I guess they were taking soil samples for 'analysis'. I see the planning consent expires in August, so this was probably done to demonstrate to the council that building work has commenced. How ridiculous. This sort of thing should have be done before the land was approved for planning permission.

The loser who buys this land will have a host of complicated, time delaying and expensive issues to deal with.

Letter sent to residents:

2020 1328 letter from council-page-001 by spoonerrow, on Flickr

If the developer who dug the one hole foundation is not going to pay the CIL money then SNC's certificate for lawfulness needs to be removed. The land has been up for sale for a very long time and continues to be so. 

I see from the Christmas eve photos that this field was flooded, again.