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H E Oodbridge Society DBRIDGE OO SO W C IE E T H Y T Newsletter Autumn 2017 Editorial Alan Vaughan Recent reports have suggested that Wood- bridge is among the fastest rising property On a perfect July evening, my wife and I markets, and that our young have to leave to watched the King’s River, the pageant get on the housing ladder. Some of the newer presented by the Woodbridge Riverside residential developments in the town seem Trust, with the first half being at the to be targeted at the second home market. It Whisstocks site and the second in the is important that planning applications bal- Riverside Theatre. With the river as a ance the need to protect the town’s heritage backdrop, the setting for the first half was and provide affordable housing. magical. In this Issue From its conception to its production, the amount of work that was necessary to stage 2 Planning Matters this work is awe inspiring. It wasn’t without 4 Blue Plaque for Roger Notcutt its hiccups as the original performance dates 5 The Story of a Street: New Street had to be changed because of construction 9 Archaeology and Royal Rendlesham delays at Whisstocks. This necessitated arranging new dates when performers, 11 The Riverside Trust musicians and backstage helpers, including 12 Writing The King's River the chaperones for the children, would still 13 Summer Visits be available, and a commitment from the 14 The Co-op in Woodbridge warriors to keeping their beards for longer! 15 Move out Budgens; move inCo-op It was a magnificent achievement and 16 Traffic and Parking: your letters reflected well on Woodbridge that there were 17 SCDC in Numbers and Pictures so many volunteers prepared to give their 18 Woodbridge on Show time and effort to perform a wide range of 19 Family Businesses tasks. This town has a lot going for it, the generally good quality of its built environment, its location by the river and Editorial Tim Cornford that it has fewer second homes than some Production Carol Wiseman other popular towns on the Suffolk coast. Photography Anthony Mather (except where stated) overwhelmingly negative. There have been Planning Matters more comments posted on the SCDC website Alan Vaughan about this than for the Adastral site. Woodbridge Town Council, Melton Parish The former District Council offices and Sutton Heath Parish Councils have all objected, as have your own Society, the National Trust, River Deben Association, Woodbridge Riverside Trust, the Suffolk Preservation Society, Suffolk Wildlife and the RSPB. Woodbridge’s County Councillor, Caroline Page, has memorably described the large blocks as cheese wedges. There has been no greater indication that planning matters than the controversy that surrounds the proposals submitted to the District Council for the development of their former offices. This time last year, having attended the Community Planning Weekend in April 2016, I wrote in this newsletter about community planning. I quoted a publication from Civic Voice, which said that, ‘The planning process seeks to secure sustainable development in the long-term public interest through democratic means. All too often, however, it becomes adversarial and communities feel What has disturbed objectors is not only the alienated from the process…. It is important design but the scale of the buildings to recognise the difference between (presumably to accommodate the extra consultation and participation; consultation residences added after the community without participation is simply asking people planning meeting), the lack of parking, the to agree what has already been decided by proposed demolition of the older buildings others.’ The firm that organised the fronting Melton Hill, and the impact the Community Planning Weekend are buildings will have on views from the river and Sutton Hoo. subscribers to this approach. What has happened does not feel like There are also concerns about the inevitable participation by the community. The conflicts of interest when the Council is application bears little resemblance to what deciding on a planning application for a site emerged from that weekend with an increase that it owns and may have a financial in residences to 100. These can only be incentive to grant permission for as many accommodated on the site by proposing tower residences as possible. blocks, described by the developers as ‘a family of canted cubes, boldly shaped’, out of The problem of conflicts of interest when a sympathy with the surrounding area. council grants permission on land it owns and plans to sell has long been recognised. In The reaction from the community in general the past, councils used to sell land they and Woodbridge Society members has been owned without planning permission. 2 However that meant any financial gain from The process of putting together the planning accrued to the developer, so now application obviously took longer than councils are allowed to sell land with anticipated. Following the public exhibition, planning permission or subject to planning the architects claimed public support. permission. However no numbers have been produced to support this. We understand that SCDC has sought to manage this conflict of interest by the At the time of going to press, we do not know councillors involved in the sale not being what the planning officers will recommend involved in the planning decisions. In the and when the application will be discussed planning application the developers say they by the planning committee. If, despite all the had a meeting with the SCDC cabinet in opposition, the Council nevertheless August 2016 at which the scheme was “well approves the application, there will be no received”. There are no minutes of that greater indication that community planning meeting on the SCDC website. has not worked here and that the views of many local residents and organisations can Any council will feel an obligation to be ignored. maximise sale proceeds in the interests of local tax payers. The SCDC site is a major Other developments asset, but surely maximising sale proceeds should not be the overwhelming Readers will have noticed that Bloor Homes consideration in situations such as this. Some has started construction on the Woods Lane analysis of community wishes should be site. A further application has been made for undertaken. 54 dwellings and 12 offices on the former GAH site on Melton Road. This site has had That the developer was willing to have a previous applications approved for it, community planning weekend to get the including for a nursing home, but none have community involved was presumably a factor come to fruition. We had no objection to this in their being chosen, as the Council must plan. have hoped that the community’s involvement would reduce the risk of As mentioned above, an outline planning controversy. As this is an asset owned by the application has been submitted for Adastral Council and such assets are held on behalf of Park. Your Planning Group is most the community, greater interest in how it concerned about the likely impact on traffic would be used in the future was to be not only on the A12 near the site but also in expected. With Whisstocks, Nunns Mill, and our town. Cedar House being developed this is probably the last significant site in or near the town Notcutts have just submitted an application centre remaining to be developed. to upgrade their retail space. However, somehow between the Community Planning Weekend and submission of the application the design changed radically. We know that regular meetings took place between the developers, architects and planning officers because some of the minutes of those meetings are contained in the Design and Access Statement. In the earliest of these it was suggested that planning permission would be sought in the autumn of 2016. 3 Blue Plaque for Roger the 1890’s the Notcutt name became synonymous with chrysanthemums, winning Notcutt Julie Murray him numerous prizes and medals. Roger developed one bloom, the Edith Tabor, which became a general favourite and this advanced his reputation in the horticultural world. Roger purchased the house and nursery here in Woodbridge in 1897 and he began growing forest and fruit trees, particularly apples and pears, and supplied trees for large estates. An annual tea party was held for head gardeners of the estates in the grounds of the Old House. Roger continued to win prizes and medals including at the Royal International Horticultural Exhibition at the Temple. This was a precursor to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Show, first held there in 1913 and where Notcutts won a Gold Medal. Roger was a member of the Flower Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society for thirty years and was President of the Ipswich and East of England Horticultural Roger Notcutt Society. He was also a Fellow of the Linnean Roger Crompton Notcutt (1869-1938) was a Society, the world's oldest extant biological major figure and a pioneer of his time in the society and which remains a leading forum horticultural industry. He started the family for debate and discussion of natural history nursery business in Woodbridge and in all its branches. As an expert on trees introduced new plants as well as winning Roger served on the Executive Council of the medals for his achievements. He was also a Suffolk Preservation Society. key figure within the town and the wider community, providing employment for many He was also a member of the Woodbridge local people as well as serving on a variety of Urban District Council and was for a time its boards and committees. The blue plaque that chairman. In 1912 he was appointed a recognises his achievements is displayed on Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk the front wall of the Old House where Roger and held the office of Sub-Divisional Officer lived, that is now the offices of Notcutts Ltd of Special Constables.
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