2020 SUBMISSION VERSION EVIDENCE PACK Consultation Period: Monday 6 April - Monday 18 May 2020 APRIL 2020 Ryburgh Neighbourhood Plan Working Group 07876588823 [email protected] www.ryburghpc.info/neighbourhood-plan www.north-norfolk.gov.uk/ryburghnp All documents can be made available in Braille, audio, large print or in other languages. Please contact 01263 516318 to discuss your requirements. RYBURGH SUBMISSION VERSION NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN EVIDENCE PACK CONTENTS Evidence Document 1 - Housing Report…………………………………….……………………………….…………….… 1 Evidence Document 2 - Landscape Character Assessment………….…………………………………………….… 7 Evidence Document 3 - Ecological Report……..………………..………….………………..………………………….… 109 Evidence Document 4 - Traffic Congestion Photographs………….……………………………………………….… 172 Evidence Document 1 - Housing Report A Report on Housing for the consideration of the working group preparing the Ryburgh Neighbourhood Plan By: Michael Rayner, Planning and Heritage Consultant, 31, Station Road, North Elmham, Dereham NR20 5HH The Ryburgh Neighbourhood Plan Area Great Ryburgh is a thriving historic village about two miles to the south-east of Fakenham and in the upper Wensum Valley: it is seeking to formulate a Neighbourhood Plan. Current and future housing in the Neighbourhood Plan area and factors affecting this. The Neighbourhood Plan area lies within the parish boundary of Great Ryburgh and has seen relatively little new housing development in the recent past due, no doubt in large part, to various policies within the Local Plan for North Norfolk. From the 2001 census Ryburgh is shown as having a population of 668 in 264 households, with the population rising to 694 in the 2011 census. The following details have also been gathered from the 2011 census data, with assistance from North Norfolk District Council who have kindly supplied a draft settlement profile for the parish of Ryburgh. Population Age profile Aged 0 to 15 Aged 16 to 29 Aged 30 to 44 Aged 45 to 64 Aged 65+ Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Ryburgh 128 19 102 15.1 104 15.2 192 28.6 146 21.7 North Norfolk 14,669 14.5 27,606 27.2 14,596 14.4 30,100 29.7 29,197 28.8 The population figures show that, compared to the North Norfolk District Council area as a whole, Ryburgh has a higher percentage of 0 – 15 year olds (19% compared to 14.5%); a much lower percentage of 16 – 29 year olds (15.1% compared to 27.2%) and fewer residents aged 65 and over (21.7% in Ryburgh compared to 28.8% for the District.) Those aged between 30 and 44, and between 45 and 64 are very similar in Ryburgh when compared to NNDC. Housing Stock House or bungalow Flat, maisonette or apartment Caravan or Detached Semi- Terraced Purpose-built Part of a In a other mobile detached block of flats converted or commercial or temporary shared house building structure numb. % numb. % numb. % numb. % numb. % numb. % numb. % 133 41.3 116 36.0 66 20.5 4 1.2 1 0.3 1 0.3 1 0.3 Page 1 Household tenure Owned Shared Social rented: Social rented: Private Living rent ownership Local Other rented free Authority numb. % numb. % numb. % numb. % numb. % numb. % 182 62.8 2 0.7 7 2.4 48 16.6 47 16.2 4 1.4 Affordability Ryburgh North Norfolk East England 10.18 8.72 8.45 7.16 The following should be noted for the affordability statistics: Ratio of lower quartile house prices to lower quartile earnings using 2 sets of data: Annual Income from Employment - This is from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and is available via the website of the Office for National Statistics (ONS). We use mean and lower quartile annual earnings. Note that this a sample of people in employment and the true value may differ to the sample data. The data does not include self-employed people. www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datase ts/placeofresidencebylocalauthorityashetable8 House Prices. The ONS also provides information about lower quartile house prices by local authority Ward. Income data is not available at the Parish level and instead we compare lower quartile prices (for the ward) with lower quartile full-time income (earnings from employment) for the district. We assume that lower quartile income for the ward is the same as for the district - this may be a false assumption. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/lowerquartilepricep aidbywardhpssadataset39 Great Ryburgh and Little Ryburgh are within the Countryside area as designated by the Local Plan (North Norfolk District Council Core Strategy, September 2008.) This Countryside Area is part of the settlement hierarchy, with the following summaries regarding development: • the majority of new commercial and residential development will be directed to the “Principal Settlements” of Cromer, Fakenham, Holt and North Walsham; • there will be more limited development opportunities in the “Secondary Settlements” of Hoveton, Sheringham, Stalham and Wells-next-the-Sea; • a small amount of new development will be focussed on a number of designated “Service Villages” and “Coastal Service Villages” in order to support rural sustainability; • in the rest of the District, known as the “Countryside Area”, development will be restricted to particular types of development such as that to support the rural economy, meet affordable housing needs and to provide renewable energy. Page 2 The majority of the recent development within the Neighbourhood Plan Area has taken the form of infill development on small sites within Great Ryburgh. As being an area designated as ‘countryside’ within the Local Plan, it should be noted for interest that Great Ryburgh is shown as being within a boundary on the Proposals Map West. This boundary is not a settlement boundary, but was originally included as a ‘boundary for reuse and adaptation of buildings in the Countryside’ under Policy LP29. However, this policy has been superseded by Policy HO9, with the boundary showing the area within which ‘the conversion and re-use of suitably constructed buildings in the countryside for permanent residential purposes will be permitted provided that’ a number of criteria are met (Policy HO9, NNDC Core Strategy.) With the loss of its primary school among other factors, it is almost certain that Great Ryburgh will remain within the Countryside Area in the emerging Local Plan. In the existing Local Plan, Service Villages “were selected on the basis of presence of a primary school, a level of public transport and a range of services (e.g. village shop) that can meet basic day-to-day needs” (Core Strategy, 2.4.7, page 30.) Great Ryburgh does not fulfil these criteria. Recent house-building Some indication of the scale of housing development permitted under the existing Local Plan is shown by the figures below. It should be noted that these completions do not necessarily relate to complete new builds, but also include conversions and extensions to existing properties for example. Statistics from the North Norfolk Residential Land Availability Statement (2016) state that for Ryburgh: Planning Completions U/C Permissions (including U/C) 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 De- Out- /02 /03 /04 /05 /06 /07 /08 /09 /10 /11 /12 /13 /14 /15 /16 tailed line Ryburgh 0 4 0 0 1 9 3 2 2 9 3 0 1 2 0 2 1 0 Supporting this pattern, when looking at planning permissions over the past ten years which have been granted for new houses or conversion to residential units within Great Ryburgh, a pattern of small-scale house-building can be seen. Approved Planning Permissions for Housing – including date when permission was granted PF/15/1228 erection of 5 residential units – land off Highfield Close, Great Ryburgh; Tue. 18 Apr 2017 PF/09/0409 conversion of school to one residential dwelling – Great Ryburgh, All Saints C of E VA Primary School; Tue. 30 Jun 2009 PF/08/1739 erection of three two-storey dwellings – the Old Appleyard, Station Road, Great Ryburgh; Wed. 11 Mar 2009 PF/08/1165 conversion of redundant barn into holiday dwelling – Suckers Barn, Westwood Lane, Great Ryburgh; Wed. 01 Oct 2008 PF/08/1063 erection of single-storey dwelling – 9 Fakenham Road, Great Ryburgh; Wed. 04 Feb 2009 PF/08/0654 erection of two-storey dwelling – rear of October Lodge, Fakenham Road, Great Ryburgh; Thu. 03 Jul 2008 Page 3 PF/08/0202 conversion of one dwelling into two dwellings – 11 Fakenham Road, Great Ryburgh; Thu. 17 Apr 2008 PF/07/1864 extension and conversion of outbuilding to provide residential dwelling – The Coach House, Fakenham Road, Great Ryburgh; Tue. 15 Apr 2008 Affordable housing is the main category of new housing which could be permitted within the Neighbourhood Plan Area under the Local Plan’s rural exception site policy. Policy HO 3, Affordable Housing in the Countryside, explains the circumstances under which affordable housing can be permitted ) Here, the need to demonstrate a proven local housing need for affordable housing is necessary. This ‘local housing need’ is defined as being ‘the need in the Parish and adjacent Parishes as evidenced by the Strategic Housing Market Assessment and the Council’s waiting list, or a Local Housing Needs Survey’ (Policy HO 3, Affordable Housing in the Countryside.) For Ryburgh the ‘adjacent Parishes’ for the purposes of this policy consist of Pudding Norton, Kettlestone, Fulmodeston and Stibbard. Housing officers at NNDC advise that there are currently (31st May 2018) 39 households with a local connection to Ryburgh and these adjacent parishes which are on the Council’s waiting list for housing. These break down as shown below: Ryburgh & adjacent parishes – local connections Household Count Couple 2 Family 1 child 7 Family 2 children under 10 years 4 Family 2 children, 1 child under 10 or more years, one of each sex 4 Family 3 children 4 Family 5+ children 1 Other Family 2 Single Person 15 Total 39 Crisp Maltings The presence of the Crisp Malting works within the centre of Great Ryburgh has a major impact on the village, especially in terms of the traffic moving to and from the works, as well as in visual terms.