ADDITIONAL BROADLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL 11 June 2019 20190005 PLANNING CONTROL Site Development Assessment Grove Farm, Blackwater Lane, Haydon, Norwich NR11 6RT Produced by: Destination Research Ltd
[email protected] www.destinationresearch.co.uk Phone: 01206 392528 Contents 1. Background 3 2. Supply 4 3. Need 6 4. Demand 9 5. Sustainability and Marketing 14 6. Relevant Policy 15 7. Conclusions 17 2 1. Introduction Destination Research was commissioned to undertake a Site Development Assessment for a farm diversification project to introduce four non-permanent ‘Canvas Lodge Tents’ to accommodate between six and eight persons each as well as a communal block with showers and accessible facilities, a store and an ‘honest shop’ for guests staying at the site. The accommodation requires no electricity or hot water. Light comes from candles and oil lamps in the accommodation, and cooking is done on a rustic wood stove internally. Each accommodation unit is provided with mattresses, a complete kitchen, flushing toilet. Dedicated parking is provided for the proposed use, using an existing access track connected to the highway along Blackwater Lane. This track will be improved and maintained to accommodate the expected increase in traffic associated with the intended camp site use, and an area will be provided for the parking and turning of up to 10 vehicles on the site, although it is anticipated through previous sites of this nature that this parking area will not reach capacity with visitors. The proposed new development would be run in conjunction with an international organisation (Feather Down Farm Days). The developers at Grove Farm would supply the camp site and some of the infrastructure (such as the access track and package treatment plant) and would also look after the visitors on a day to day basis.