New towns – CPRE Norfolk Position Statement

CPRE Norfolk supports new housing of the right type when it is built in the right places in the right quantity.

However, we do not support the building of a new town in Norfolk because the current housing targets in all the local plans across Norfolk are already unnecessarily high and therefore there is no need for a new town.

There are a huge number of sites allocated and available in the Greater Norwich Local Plan (GNLP) area and elsewhere in Norfolk for new market housing that remain undeveloped.

Meeting existing inflated targets would already lead to a significant loss of countryside, a reduction in rural tranquillity, increased light pollution and traffic levels and the construction of a new town would cause considerable additional damage to our much-loved landscape.

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