Plans have been developed for the Greater Norwich area
Supporters of Greater Norwich housing plan claim new research backs their blueprints
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
1:24 PM
Plans to develop thousands of houses in and around Norwich have been backed in a new report, it was claimed today.
Blueprints showing where 37,000 new properties will be built and 27,000 jobs can be created by 2026 have proved controversial since they were drawn up by the Greater Norwich Development Partnership (GNDP).
The plans, known as the Joint Core Strategy (JCS), are subject to a legal challenge and awaiting a High Court judge to give his decision.
But the GNDP - which includes Norfolk, Norwich, Broadland and South Norfolk councils - says the Town and Country Planning Association’s (TCPA) Vision for Rural England report shares their views about growth.
The TCPA, which campaigns for the reform of the planning system to promote sustainable development, said in its report it was “possible” to locate “well designed, connected and sustainable in the countryside”. But it also said “community-led” planning was important.
The report continued: “The garden city, new market town and eco-town (and eco-village) models can offer a radical approach - provided that local and sub-regional circumstances are fully recognised. However, planning new communities is not without formidable challenges to relationships with existing rural residents, including providing sustainable transport and delivering truly ‘sustainable development’ in the rural context.”
Andrew Proctor, Broadland District Council leader and GNDP chairman, said: “It’s heartening that such an authoritative body as the Town and Country Planning Association shares our views about growth.
“Their research and new policy paper highlights that piecemeal development will not solve the country’s affordable homes crisis, and also backs our approach for sustainable development with good transport links between homes and jobs.
“The report represents a ringing endorsement of the vision we have for steady and sustained growth and prosperity in our part of Norfolk, taking into account the rural economy, climate change and the localism agenda.”
Trevor Cherrett, the report’s lead author and TCPA policy council member, said: “New communities offer a powerful opportunity to deliver much needed housing for our rural areas in a holistic and comprehensively planned way, rather than through piecemeal development.
“The exact opposite to urban sprawl and ‘bolt-on estates’, not only can they deliver more housing with potentially less environmental impact, they also present a significant opportunity to embed community governance structures, create jobs, and promote low-carbon living in high-quality, sustainable and inclusive places.”
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10 comments
Building new homes may never be popular to vested interests but please remember your own property was no doubt built on unspoilt countryside at the time.I have always found new homes are thoughly popular with the new residents especially for those in their own property for the first time whether as tenant or owner occupier For those who need homes urbanisation is no bad thing. It might even catch on.
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Peter Watson
Monday, February 6, 2012
Poor old Mr.Proctor, is he feeling a bit left out as he doesn't seem to be getting as much 'press' coverage as his predicessor so he has to 'big-up' his and Mr.Kirby's chums from the TCPA's comment supporting thier lunatic strategies to destroy Norfolk...it's always re-assuring to see one quango patting another quango ( from the inner sanctions of the 'big smoke') on the back. Also, Interesting to hear the 'true' feelings regarding local comments and democracy with regards to planning from the TCPA and it's former head ( Gideon Amos) ....more to follow.check the SNUB website.
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kingsize
Friday, February 3, 2012
BUT the proposed Rackheath development isn't stand alone as promoted by the TCPA. It will be a "bolt-on estate" to the existing village and will add to the N E Norwich urban sprawl so TCPA's report hardly looks like a ringing endorsement of GNDP's plans to me - in fact just the opposite! http:www.ruralworkspace.co.ukdocumentsview25
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Rosie Specs
Friday, February 3, 2012
No info on what exactly these 27,000 jobs are...or where, not forgetting that 35,000 new homes could generate 70,000 plus peeps, who would reside in the homes
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nrg
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
This is a report from a body with a vested interest which in all reasonable circumstances is quite invalid. The comments from an obviously biased Archant are equally invalid. What happened to the integrity of journalism? Is this the best that the supporters and Archant can do?
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andy
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Yes lets build sustainable housing, from local resources, not expensive high energy bricks, build by small and mediaum local firms and with local labour, using local sustainable wood and modern energy saving materials and energy generating systems, ground heat pumps and rainwater retention, solar PV and water heating. That said, where is the potable water for these properties going to come from if drought conditions in the east persist?
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ingo wagenknecht
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Yes lets build more homes, while people are losing jobs, having their salaries frozen. Whilst at the sametime, making no improvements to the road infrastructure or ammenities for all the extra people that will require these to be in place. New homes means more people requiring cars. There needs more action taken against empty homes before there is any idea of masses of new housing developments.
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chebram71
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Andrew Proctor uses this depressingly predictable report by the Town and Country Planning Association as a drunk uses a lamp-post - for support rather than illumination. The TCPA is hardly likely to present an objective view on the subject is it? It has a vested interest in promoting development, otherwise it has no remit. And how significant that the ubiquitous, meaningless word "sustainable" is used no fewer than SEVEN times in this story in an attempt to "sustain" a pointless argument. The senseless jargonm of the last two paragraphs of the story says everything you need to know about the TCPA and the what local communities are up against in the fight to prevent the blight of the countryside.
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TPW
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Hmmm, how long before every terrace house in the NR3 area is replaced by new housing?
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Whiley Boy
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
the biggest stitch up since the Bayeaux Tapestry.
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bookworm
Wednesday, February 1, 2012