\n West Norfolk Council’s planning committee has been recommended to approve plans to build on the former primary school at Sedgeford, near Hunstanton.\n<\/p>\n
\n A planning officer’s report says the village has agreed a neighbourhood plan which includes “a principal residency requirement” which will apply to the application.\n<\/p>\n
\n Twelve new houses in the school’s grounds, off Ringstead Road are included in the scheme, while the main school building and adjoining headteacher’s house will be converted into eight flats.\n<\/p>\n
\n Repton Property Developments and Torrington Properties, who are behind the scheme, said in a planning statement the new accommodation “could meet the requirements of the local population, including young couples, families, retired people and key workers”.\n<\/p>\n
\n A graphic showing the mixture of homes proposed for the Sedgeford site (Image: Repton Property Developments)\n<\/p>\n
\n Developers initially said including two affordable properties within the scheme would not be viable – sparking an objection from Sedgeford Parish Council.\n<\/p>\n
\n But the planning report says an independent assessment concluded providing two affordable properties would be viable and the developers have now agreed.\n<\/p>\n
\n It adds: “The site would provide houses and flats of a mix of sizes, with a housing mix ranging from one bedroom flats to four bedroom detached dwellings.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The school does not currently serve the local community and the reuse of the building for housing for local people is considered to be of wider benefit.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Councillors have been recommended to approve the plans when they meet on Monday, January 12 – subject to obtaining legal agreements regarding the affordable homes and principal residence condition covering the rest of the development.\n<\/p>\n
\n The school closed in 2020 because of falling pupil numbers. People in their 20s and 30s could no longer afford to buy a property in the leafy village, where the average house changes hands for more than \u00a3350,000 and almost half of properties are either second homes or holiday lets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Norfolk Council’s planning committee has been recommended to approve plans to build on the former primary school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-339649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}