Spooner Row Message Board

IMPORTANT

This currently EXCLUDES small village clusters of which Suton, Spooner row and Wattlefield is one

Sites are being looked at by South Norfolk Reg sub committee and the Planners,  and we have yet to be considered. Basically SMALL sites are up for consideration for each village cluster of a max of 25 houses per site and some clusters are getting more than one site and others are getting none.

This excludes those already approved and unless they run out of time they will not be revisited BUT we are seeing some VERY generous extensions to time being granted almost on the nod Not happy

This 25 rule has come as a blow to some developers who no doubt will NOT be happy and be doing the usual tricks to circumvent this process which they have been very successful at in previous years . The good news in not quite so easy nowadays

It is a fairly robust process BUT I am not permitted to share any discussions or decisions that are made, at this time with you. Not a decision I am happy with either but stuck.  

This consultation ends tomorrow.  Looking at the GNLP website, not many people have engaged and contributed their views to the soundness of this proposed local plan which includes aspects such as flood risk and the natural environment. People probably still remember how comments and objections were ignored on the previous local plan, which is what I recall happened for the selected sites in Spooner Row. It seems a bit strange having this public consultation that separates the soundness and legality of a local plan from a future public consultation on the proposed housing development sites in smaller villages. Why not include both these factors tothether as they have for the town areas? I have little confidence that SNC's choice of development sites in smaller villages will be right for local people.

Go to:  https://www.gnlp.org.uk/  Look on the left-hand side and click on part 1 or part 2 and then click on the icons to read the very few responses that have already been made. There is still time to make a comment or two on subjects such as flood risks. The choice of subjects to comment on seem very limited and vague eg. the Health and Wellbeing section doesn't mention increased hospital provision despite a growing population in this region to which this local plan caters for.