32. This is a publicly owned brownfield site that is expected to become vacant due to the decision to relocate Wymondham Recycling Centre. Strayground Lane is a quiet country road that connects to the built edge of Wymondham to the north via Whartons Lane. The Bays River Meadow North County Wildlife Site is located to the north, and partly overlaps the site, and immediately to the west is an established paving business.
33. The redevelopment of this site will require local highways improvements, consideration of noise and dust from neighbouring activities, investigation of possible land contamination from previous uses, and conducting an ecological assessment prior to development due to the neighbouring County Wildlife Site.
Policy GNLP5005
Land at Strayground Lane Wymondham (0.07 ha), currently the Wymondham Recycling Centre, is allocated for a residential Gypsy and Traveller site. The site will accommodate approximately 2 residential Gypsy and Traveller pitches.
The development will address the following site-specific matters:
- Access will be via Strayground Lane using the existing vehicular access for the recycling centre.
- Improvements will be required to the passing bays along Strayground Lane and an adequate visibility is required at the junction of Whartons Lane with London Road (the B1172).
- A contaminated land assessment is required, and any mitigation must be completed prior to development.
- An ecological assessment must be carried out and any identified impacts on nearby sites mitigated.
- Pollution mitigation measures are required as the site is within the catchment of groundwater source protection zone (III).
- The residential pitches shall not be occupied by any persons other than Gypsies and Travellers and their families.
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