Surlingham

Surlingham School are collecting the Books for Schools vouchers from the EDP and Evening News.  If you get these papers we would love it if you could hand tokens in to the School Office or to Sylvia in the Post Office who will pass them on.  There is one token printed in every paper from October 1 to December 8.  We need 1000 tokens so would love your help!  If we get 1000 we get at least £100 to spend on books!  Full details on leaflet attached.  Books for Schools Leaflet

If you have a pile of past copies and would like us to collect and remove tokens for you please call Victoria on 538132.

Many Thanks!

FOSS

Dear Friends, We have two very simple ways in which you can help Surlingham School from the comfort of your own home while doing your online shopping and one way to help us and clear your house at the same time!  Please read on to see if you can help us out at no extra cost to yourselves!  We are, as always, extremely grateful for every little bit of support.

Fundraiser 1…..Children’s Bookshop

Are you planning on buying any children’s books this Christmas?  If you are please consider buying them via the Scholastic book site via the link below .  If you do this Surlingham School will get 10% of all sales in book vouchers and on top of that the Scholastic Organiser will donate the full commission (another 20%) to FOSS!  This will help us continue to fill the library areas at school with fab books for our bookworm children!

https://book-parties.scholastic.co.uk/party/christmas-book-party-1

Fundraiser 2……Easyfundraising

If you shop online for ANYTHING else this Christmas, please could you sign up to easyfundraising to support Friends of Surlingham School – FOSS?

It’s a really easy way to raise money for us – you just use the easyfundraising site to shop online with more than 3,300 well known online stores like Amazon, Argos, John Lewis, ASOS, Booking.com, eBay, Boden, and M&S and when you make a purchase, the retailer sends us a free donation, at no extra cost to you.

We want to raise as much as possible, so please visit our  easyfundraising page at https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/fossnorwich/ and click ‘support us’.

Fundraiser 3….Bag-2-School

If you are having a pre-Christmas clear out please consider bagging up your old clothes, curtains, handbags and shoes and leaving them at School on Wednesday 28th November.  They will be collected by Bag-2-School who pay FOSS per kg of donated items.  This way we can raise some funds from our unwanted goods!  If you have things to donate but cannot get them to school please call Victoria Wright on 538132 and we will arrange to collect them from your house.

Thank you!

FOSS

Thanks to Vic Thomson Norfolk County and South Norfolk District Councillor who has provided the village with another supply of wheelie bin stickers to encourage drivers to slow down.

There is a supply at the Village shop and a small supply at the Parish Hall.

The Greater Norwich Local Plan (GNLP) is being produced by Broadland District Council, Norwich City Council and South Norfolk Council working together with Norfolk County Council through the Greater Norwich Development Partnership (GNDP).

Regulation 18 public consultation on New, Revised and Small Sites for the GNLP will commence at 9am on Monday 29 October and will close at 5pm on Friday 14 December 2018. 

We are seeking your views on new, revised and small sites put forward by landowners, agents and developers for consideration for future development in the GNLP.  You can find further information about the sites and make comments online at click here   It is very important to note that this is an early consultation stage and no final decisions have been made on any sites.

This current consultation follows an initial Regulation 18 consultation that took place between January and March 2018 which asked for views on more than 600 suggested sites and wider strategic planning issues.  Approximately 240+ new sites or revisions to existing sites were put forward during the consultation and it is these sites that we are now asking for your views about.  In addition this current consultation also includes small sites below 0.25 hectares, which have not been consulted on previously.  Except for the sites we have been asked to revise, we are not consulting again on the sites we asked for your views on during the January to March 2018 consultation.  Only those parishes which contain new, revised or small sites are included in the current consultation.

A few key points should be noted about this latest consultation on sites:

·         An initial Housing and Economic Housing Land Availability Assessment (HELAA) has been undertaken for the newly submitted and revised sites which should help you make your comments.  Further detailed site assessment work will be needed before a site can be considered for allocation in the GNLP so the inclusion of a site as potentially suitable for development in the HELAA does not confer any planning status on that site, or any commitment it will brought forward for development.

·         Small sites below 0.25 hectares have not been included in the HELAA as they are below the site size threshold set in the methodology.  Due to their size the small sites are not proposed to be allocated individually in the plan, instead we will consider them in the context of extending/altering settlement boundaries to allow for smaller scale development to come forward.

·         Far more land has been submitted for consideration than will be needed in the GNLP.  Many sites will be inappropriate for allocation due to constraints (such as landscape, flood risk, poor access to service etc.) and others, whilst not unacceptable in principle, will be less suitable for allocation than “competitor” sites.  Growth will be carefully planned to ensure it is located in the most appropriate locations and will be supported by appropriate and timely infrastructure provision.

·         The current list of sites will need to be refined.  Some sites, or parts of sites, have been submitted twice (once by the landowner and once by a land promoter/agent), some sites are already allocated in an adopted local plan and have been resubmitted (perhaps with requests to change the allocation boundary, to update adopted policy clauses or alter the mix of development types proposed) and some sites may now have planning permission.

·         It is also possible that further sites will be promoted during the production of the GNLP.

Hard copies of consultation documents and maps are available to view at the following deposit points:

·         Norfolk County Council, County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich (main reception)

·         Norwich City Council, City Hall, St Peters Street, Norwich (2^nd floor reception)

·         Broadland District Council, Thorpe Road, Thorpe St Andrew (main reception)

·         South Norfolk Council, Cygnet Court, Long Stratton (main reception)

The quickest and easiest way to respond to the consultation is online at click here but if you are unable to respond online please contact us on email or 01603 306603 to request a response form.  You can also email or phone us if you need consultation information in large print, audio, Braille, an alternative format or a different language.  All responses must be received by 5pm on Friday 14 December 2018.

Kind regards

Mike Burrell

Greater Norwich Planning Policy Team Manager

You may be aware that Norfolk County Council’s Environment, Development and Transport Committee approved four options for a potential Norwich Western Link last week and these are now our shortlist of options.

A public consultation on these routes will run between Monday 26 November 2018 and Friday 18 January 2019. During the consultation, people will be asked for their views on the options and these responses will help the council identify a preferred option for a Norwich Western Link in spring 2019.

You can find out more about the options and respond to the consultation online via www.norfolk.gov.uk/nwl from Monday 26 November. You can also respond in person, and ask any questions you may have, at a series of staffed events taking place in local communities throughout the consultation period. You can find details of these on the attached poster. Norwich WL_Options_Poster_14.11.18

We would encourage everyone to look through all the information available as part of the consultation before making their response. If you have any questions that the published consultation information doesn’t answer, please let us know – whether in person at one of our dedicated consultation events or by email.

Best wishes,

Chris Fernandez

Norwich Western Link