Residents of Bowthorpe take a look at the plans to build houses at Three Score.
Green light given for a thousand new homes in Bowthorpe, near Norwich
Thursday, March 14, 2013
12:35 PM
A thousand new homes will be built on the outskirts of Norwich, after city councillors granted planning permission for a scheme at Bowthorpe.
Norwich City Council had applied to its own planning committee for permission to redevelop the Three Score site, south of Clover Hill.
And members of the city council’s planning committee today approved the scheme unanimously.
The scheme includes up to a thousand homes, a care home, a new village centre with at least one shop and a public open space.
The city council snapped up 502 acres of land at Bowthorpe in a £9.5m deal 40 years ago. But while Clover Hill and Chapel Break were developed, much of Three Score remained on the drawing board.
Through a partnership with the Homes and Communities Agency, the city council came up with fresh plans for the site.
But people living nearby raised concerns about a bus route through the development, saying it could put children at risk and passengers on double decker buses would be able to see into their homes and gardens.
Sandra Rawlins, speaking on behalf of almost 40 residents at today’s meeting, said: “We have got no objection against the homes, we have always known they would be coming.
“But we were always led to believe the buses would go from the roundabout at Bishy Barnabee Way.”
She said people were concerned that their children, who play in nearby fields, would have to cross the road which buses will use to get to them.
And she added: “We will have double decker buses sitting at the bottom of our gardens, able to see into our gardens, conservatories and bedrooms.”
However, Gwyn Jones, the council’s city growth and development manager, said: “This is a really important strategic site for the city and in providing housing in the city.
“Without this Norwich and Greater Norwich would not meet its housing targets set in the Joint Core Strategy.
“It’s also really important for the council because it is part of our partnership with the Homes and Conmunities Agency.
“Proceeds from development will be reinvested into housing regeneration projects elsewhere in the city.”
Officers said they did not believe the buses presented any safety issues and said there were many other examples in the city of buses passing people’s gardens.
Although the committee approved the plans, councillors agreed to request that the bus lane position be reconsidered - which could yet see that part of the scheme redesigned.
The development would include one and two bedroom flats and two, three and four bedroom houses.
Almost 50 of the homes would be the first council homes built in Norwich for the best part of two decades.
The council says the visual impact on the setting of the Yare Valley nearby can be mitigated through landscaping and the design of the buildings along the southern part of the site.
It is estimated it will take between 10 and 12 years for all the homes to be built.
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12 comments
debsyn, In short NO, big Eric Pickles has poked Brenda and her building cronies into start the building phase. The cronies are trying to hold out for an upward trend of house prices....Our local nuLabour muppets had 13 years of the warmonger (blair) and the one eyed idiot(brown) to build council owned homes, they dodged it and went with their other cronies (HA), to fiddle and evict pensioners from their much loved homes. May I suggest you do some research on the other lardy idiot Lord back pocket Prescott and his 'Pathfinder' agenda...peace 'Beppe' nrg.
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nrg
Thursday, March 14, 2013
nrg, weren't the homes proposed under a Labour government? And I doubt the houses will be built with the Tories still in power... At least half the houses should be council owned, if you ask me - many people on lower or even mid incomes just can't afford to buy their own house now.
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debsyn
Thursday, March 14, 2013
milex..read the small print. Only 50 of the homes so far have been promised as 'council' owned...all the others, if built..are for anyone who has the means to buy. The buy to let' boys will be the biggest landlords, coining taxpayers cash via housing benefit for HMO's.
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nrg
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Guess the fact being, that council homes only get built in Norwich under a Tory government, must stick in Brenda's nulabour throats big time.
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nrg
Thursday, March 14, 2013
where is the promise from the city council that local people will get local homes. There is no point in building 1000 homes if local people are not going to get the first chance. This is just what we expected from norwich city council
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milecross
Thursday, March 14, 2013
For flood victims? The stupid thing is if the council was run by engineers then this would not happen, maybe if run by accountants they would be risk adverse, but for some reason (I'm Suffolk so neutral in your political games) Norfolk council and it's subsidary district councils have all evidentially all become idiots. Maybe UEA has a vaccine. against power hungry no-nothings.. I'm afraid to say you have infected WDC and Mark Bee has passed the ego-mania to SCC too. We traced it back to your source!
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Dave01
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Better make a start on enlarging the N&N then.
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Joe Mullets Uncle
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Talk about being poacher and game keeper, applying to your own planning committee is nothing short of ridiculous in this day and age.
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John L Norton
Thursday, March 14, 2013
The lower end of three score is in an active flood plain. The earth banks will not protect the lower houses. When the original ground works were dug they flooded within 24 hours from below upwards; ground water pressure. I drove by the day after and saw this. Are they proposing houses on stilts or are they being both ignorant and stupid .. or are they keeping to the much higher ground? or are the developers hiding something e.g. common sense? This is theprobably the worst place in the area to build for risk of both ground and surface water flooding.. but the council will say it is ok.
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Dave01
Thursday, March 14, 2013
It not homes that are needed but boats. Lived on BowthropeChapelbreak for 40 years and seen how the new road on Three Score will be more like a river in years to come with the fields flooding more and more and getting worse. The area is highlighted as a flood area on the environment web site.
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Cepnch
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Oh dear buses at the bottom of my garden what ever next, i think halve the residents of norwich have buses passing or stopping by their gardens,but thats life just make sure sandra when the bus stops by your garden and the commuters look out of the window into your conservatory and garden that you aren't sunbathing in the buff.
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paf1
Thursday, March 14, 2013
good news not Where is all the traffic going to go its time they upgraded the watton road or a new road to the southern bypass otherwise the gridlock on the dereham road will only get worse
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david106
Thursday, March 14, 2013