Woodton could see even more properties as new plans filed

The application is to construct the houses in Woodton, near Bungay, on the land to the east of Chapel Hill, a leafy rural lane which leads to Bedingham from the village pub.

The applicant, Euston Estates, wants to build four three-bedroom homes, two homes with two bedrooms, two homes with four bedrooms and one five-bedroom house - many of which will have a double garage.

In 2019 Rural Solutions Ltd saw a bid to build 30 properties on the same stretch of land denied after objections among locals.

The village, which in the 2021 census had just a population of 714, is already set to grow as a recent development just off The Street has also been completed.

Those properties are currently on the market and being sold by Savilles, while just some 20 metres from there, another development for four homes is underway.

The quiet leafy lane of Chapel Hill where the nine homes could be built (Image: Bruno Brown)

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And South Norfolk Council is set to rule on an application filed in May for 50 homes to be built off Church Road.

Jane Wickstead, chair of the Woodton parish council, is concerned about the planning proposals (Image: Bruno Brown)

Jane Wickstead, chair of the Woodton Parish Council, said: "We at the parish council are deeply disappointed by this sudden application.

"It is upsetting for many of the residents, we feel the proposals are threatening the rural landscape and quiet nature which makes our village so beautiful.

"The Church Road application, and now this new development simply is overloading a village which has lost much of its infrastructure.

"We lost the shop, and the nursery, so it is difficult to see the logic and how it is appropriate to build more homes here."

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Mrs Wickstead and the parish council are planning to submit a formal objection to the proposal.

The council chair also will be handing out flyers and providing a mail drop to homes immediately within the vicinity of the new planning application.

To view and or comment on the plans search reference 2023/2771 in South Norfolk's planning portal.

The development of four homes is underway on The Street in Woodton (Image: Bruno Brown)