 SNUB issues legal challenge to the Joint Core Strategy
Norwich is to change beyond all recognition in the next 20 years, with more than 10, 000 homes planned for the Broadland area alone. How will these changes affect your community?
Stop Norwich Urbanisation (SNUB) was formed in 2009 to promote awareness of the vast changes that the Greater Norwich Development Partnership (GNDP) are attempting to make to our beautiful city & surrounding villages. Once the landscapes are destroyed, then they are gone forever. SNUB is not against development, but opposes vast & unnecessary development, as proposed by Broadland District Council. SNUB is in favour of dispersal development - building the necessary number of houses for each parish, based on the views of the Parish Council & local Parish Plans for Development. Since the formation of SNUB, many other local community groups have also been created to stop these changes, including: Save Thorpe Woodlands, 4Villages and Vision Our Wymondham. SNUB's LEGAL CHALLENGE Mr Justice Ousley upheld the legal challenge of the Joint Core Strategy (JCS) submitted by Stephen Heard, Chair of the local community campaign group called Stop Norwich Urbanisation (SNUB) on the basis that the Greater Norwich Development Partnership (GNDP) made up of four local authorities (Broadland, Norfolk County Council, Norwich City and South Norfolk) did: a) Not explain which reasonable alternatives had been selected for the planned growth in Norfolk and why no reasonable alternatives had been selected; and b) Did not exam reasonable alternatives in the same depth as the preferred option. The Judge made this judgement because EU Directives and English law states that a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which the Councils had undertaken, did not comply with two requirements: a) first, that it explain which reasonable alternatives to urban growth in the North East Growth Triangle they had selected to examine and why, b) and second, that it examine reasonable alternatives in the same depth as the preferred option which emerged. Are you aware of the scale of the development planned for Norwich and surrounding areas? Find the truth now... We Need Your Support Now!If you support SNUB's aims and goals, then please support us any way you can, from displaying posters to actively campaigning. If you would like to help by making a donation you can send a cheque made out to S.N.U.B to the treasurer - c/o Vine Cottage, Hall Drive, Salhouse NORWICH NR13 6RS or if you prefer by BACS transfer to our SNUB Account at the Co-operative Bank Code 08-92-99 Account Number 65400360. If you want a receipt or wish remain anonymous please let us know.
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SNUB issues legal challenge to Joint Core Strategy
Read details of the claim here . Stephen Heard, chair of SNUB said " We would now expect the new Council following the district elections on the 5th May to take this opportunity to withdraw the current JCS in order for them to start again with a viable and accurate forecast of housing need in the area. Once that housing need, as opposed to housing want, is determined and independently verified by experts we would expect to see a reduction in the number of houses required over the next 15 years. Our hope then is that a number of alternative solutions would be placed before the electorate in an open and transparent consultation. Furthermore we would expect all of the alternatives to be assessed to the same level in order for the public to make an informed decision and choice about the provision of future housing needs and for the Council to listen to and act on the Communities wishes rather than working hand in glove with developers.
Our desire is that this would result in the current and future population of the district being housed in a sensible and considered way with a dispersed strategy providing fresh investment into existing communities, maintaining what little food producing land we have left here in Norfolk and protecting the countryside as we know it."
Our desire is that this would result in the current and future population of the district being housed in a sensible and considered way with a dispersed strategy providing fresh investment into existing communities, maintaining what little food producing land we have left here in Norfolk and protecting the countryside as we know it."
