The material on this part of this website provides the background to proposals from the Greater Norwich Development Partnership to develop a ‘new country town’ of 4,000 dwellings by 2026 at Mangreen SW of Norwich with associated developments in Mulbarton (1,000 additional dwellings by 2021) and Swardeston (500 new dwellings by 2017). The initial proposals from the planners acting on behalf of the landowners concerned are set out: these do not have any official endorsement.
Decisions will be made shortly by councils on whether this outline proposal should be taken forward to be one of the preferred development locations for Greater Norwich up to 2026 and beyond.
Responses to these proposals and information on the decision making process and its conclusions will be posted here on an ongoing basis.
An EDP item on 19.12.08 summarises the decisions of the GNDP for the future sites for more housing around Norwich. The Mangreen Action Group will secure the full detail of the decision and plan its response for early in the New Year, when the whole set of proposals will be sent out for consultation before submission to the Government.
Mulbarton Village Hall open meeting 24.10.08
Over 200 local residents turned out on a Friday evening at very short notice to find out more about what planners are proposing for the area. Planners from SNDC and representing the landowners involved explained the decision process and the outline scheme that had been drawn up (see items at the top of this page).
After nearly 90 minutes of questions and comments from the floor Cllr Jon Herbert, who chaired the meeting, asked for a show of hands on the issues of consultation and the outline plans. The meeting unanimously expressed its dissatisfaction with how the council had alerted residents to the possible new town to be developed in their midst and, having heard the outline plans and reactions from those who had examined them and others at the meeting, also unanimously voted against them.
Mulbarton Village Hall 14.11.08
A second meeting was organised for those not able to attend the October meeting. Again, despite little notice, nearly 200 were present and heard explanations from the SNDC planners. Again those present unanimously expressed their dissatisfaction with how the council had alerted residents and unanimously voted against the plans.
The chairs of the local parish councils met on two occasions after the meetings. They formed the Mangreen Action Group and agreed a united response to the councillors who will represent the 4 councils who make up the GNDP at the December 18th decision making meeting. This response has also been sent to the local MP and county councillor and to the planning officers of the 4 councils. Other lobbying activity is in hand. A copy of the content of this letter is available above.
Extract from GNDP consultation document on Joint core strategy November 2007, para 1.11:
| Preferred options stage (Technical Consultation) | June 2008 – mid August 2008 |
| Report on Technical Consultation | On GNDP website November 5, 2008 |
| Submissions stage | 2009 |
| Public examination | September 2009 |
| Adoption | early 2010 |
UPDATED
The report on the assessment of the feedback from the technical consultation has not yet appeared on the GNDP website; see the website (http://www.gndp.org.uk) for it in due course. The GNDP team have provided the Mangreen Action Group with all the responses to the technical consultation on a CD Rom - it is some 700MB in total.
A decision will be made by SNDC councillors in early December as to which of the three options they prefer (or which variant of them). This will be discussed at a GNDP meeting of planners in mid December prior to a meeting on December 18th with 4 councillors from each of the 4 councils and a Broads authority representative reaching a conclusion. This will be consulted on formally in the New Year.
Please provide full detail of any documents on which you are commenting (weblink, title, paragraph etc) and, if you wish, details of your name, contact details, and interests in the proposals. We will take it you are happy to have your comments added to this website unless you specifically tell us this is not so.