Object
Preferred Options consultation document
Representation ID: 98154
Received: 20/10/2019
Respondent: Mr Robert Green
Thankyou for your email notification regarding the Norfolk Minerals and Waste consultations currently in session.
My objections to the planning application referenced above are as follows:
1. The road infrastructure in and around Haddiscoe are inadequate for sustained and prolonged use by heavy industrial traffic and plant. Already an accident black spot Haddiscoe is a Parish Hamlet and many of its roads/lanes are very narrow with numerous bends and poor visibility, particularly when the trees and bushes are in leaf. At the top of Thorpe Road there is a dangerous T-Junction with only enough room for single lane traffic, and the Loddon Road has more meanders in it than a snake, and all with multiple blind spots. They are clearly unsuitable for the extra demand that would be placed on them, and general road user safety will be massively compromised in an area already subject to a Police Safety Scheme.
It is worthy of note that ramblers, cyclists and dog walkers and local people regularly use the roads without pavement provisions, and a massive increase in heavy haulage would serve only to put them further at risk. If this application was successful Haddiscoe will soon mirror a rural industrial estate, with the A143 morphing into a motorway.
2. Environmental Impact. There is a multitude of diverse wildlife habitats in and around Haddiscoe, not least the family of barn owls who live the nearby the proposed site. If they had a voice I wonder if they would agree to this application? I suspect not and disruption to local habitiat caused by all of the various types of pollution will inevitably have an adverse, and catastrophic effect on flora and forna in the immediate and surrounding area. I don't suppose for one minute that muntjacks breed near bulldozes or under floodlights. Not least to mention the local brown hare population that frequent areas all around the proposed site.
3. Flooding also presents serious problems for Haddiscoe which often received flood warning alerts from the Water and Broads Authority. Being in effect marshland it sits the wrong end of the water table, and it is the natural defences of fields, trees and flora that all play a significant part controlling water levels from the river. I do not think these things should be interfered with or Haddiscoe will become more at risk of becoming Haddiscoe-Next-Sea!
4. Community Impact: Quarrying in Haddiscoe will irrevocably erode its Parish ambience which is the reason that most people chose to live here in the first place. Property values and their re-sale will be adversely affected and Haddiscoe will become the victim of noise, dust, light and traffic (heavy) and dust pollution.
I have spoke to many people in Haddiscoe both residents and visitors all of whom objected to the application but most of whom were not even aware of the current consultations. And so it is for all of the above that I object to this application for mineral extraction in Haddiscoe/Loddon.
It is worthy of note that for a very few this application represents purely monetary gain but for most the effects will be seriously detrimental with high environmental costs.
It certainly would be nice if the views from Haddiscoe church could remain a peaceful patchwork quilt of fields and tress as opposed to quarrying sites with the drone of JCB's and aggregate plant.
Norfolk and Suffolk Councils have always been very good at protecting their rural spaces, and it is this conservation ethos that ensures people return year after year to holiday, and why Norfolk people love their County so much.
Thank you for your considerations
Thankyou for your email notification regarding the Norfolk Minerals and Waste consultations currently in session.
My objections to the planning application referenced above are as follows:
1. The road infrastructure in and around Haddiscoe are inadequate for sustained and prolonged use by heavy industrial traffic and plant. Already an accident black spot Haddiscoe is a Parish Hamlet and many of its roads/lanes are very narrow with numerous bends and poor visibility, particularly when the trees and bushes are in leaf. At the top of Thorpe Road there is a dangerous T-Junction with only enough room for single lane traffic, and the Loddon Road has more meanders in it than a snake, and all with multiple blind spots. They are clearly unsuitable for the extra demand that would be placed on them, and general road user safety will be massively compromised in an area already subject to a Police Safety Scheme.
It is worthy of note that ramblers, cyclists and dog walkers and local people regularly use the roads without pavement provisions, and a massive increase in heavy haulage would serve only to put them further at risk. If this application was successful Haddiscoe will soon mirror a rural industrial estate, with the A143 morphing into a motorway.
2. Environmental Impact. There is a multitude of diverse wildlife habitats in and around Haddiscoe, not least the family of barn owls who live the nearby the proposed site. If they had a voice I wonder if they would agree to this application? I suspect not and disruption to local habitiat caused by all of the various types of pollution will inevitably have an adverse, and catastrophic effect on flora and forna in the immediate and surrounding area. I don't suppose for one minute that muntjacks breed near bulldozes or under floodlights. Not least to mention the local brown hare population that frequent areas all around the proposed site.
3. Flooding also presents serious problems for Haddiscoe which often received flood warning alerts from the Water and Broads Authority. Being in effect marshland it sits the wrong end of the water table, and it is the natural defences of fields, trees and flora that all play a significant part controlling water levels from the river. I do not think these things should be interfered with or Haddiscoe will become more at risk of becoming Haddiscoe-Next-Sea!
4. Community Impact: Quarrying in Haddiscoe will irrevocably erode its Parish ambience which is the reason that most people chose to live here in the first place. Property values and their re-sale will be adversely affected and Haddiscoe will become the victim of noise, dust, light and traffic (heavy) and dust pollution.
I have spoke to many people in Haddiscoe both residents and visitors all of whom objected to the application but most of whom were not even aware of the current consultations. And so it is for all of the above that I object to this application for mineral extraction in Haddiscoe/Loddon.
It is worthy of note that for a very few this application represents purely monetary gain but for most the effects will be seriously detrimental with high environmental costs.
It certainly would be nice if the views from Haddiscoe church could remain a peaceful patchwork quilt of fields and tress as opposed to quarrying sites with the drone of JCB's and aggregate plant.
Norfolk and Suffolk Councils have always been very good at protecting their rural spaces, and it is this conservation ethos that ensures people return year after year to holiday, and why Norfolk people love their County so much.
Thank you for your considerations