Policy R38: Three Score, Bowthorpe

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The site was allocated in the previous Local Plan for residential-led mixed-use development and is being developed in accordance with an approved masterplan. The site will deliver approximately 1000 homes as provided for in the outline planning permission. Development of the north-eastern part of the original allocation south of Clover Hill Road is being progressed and is partly complete. The remaining undeveloped phases of Three Score have the potential to deliver approximately 900 homes under current planning consents. Development of the rest of Three Score is expected to take place within the time-period of this Local Plan. The site is re-allocated for residential-led mixed use development including open space. As an existing allocation it has been considered in the calculation of the housing requirement.

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The site is likely to accommodate in the region of 900 homes. More may be accommodated, subject to an acceptable design and layout etc. being achieved.

Strategic Allocation: Policy R38

Three Score, Bowthorpe, Norwich (approx. 25.29ha) is allocated for an urban extension including housing, open and play space and associated infrastructure. This will accommodate in the region of 900 homes.

The development will achieve the following site-specific requirements:

  1. Be planned as an exemplar development with a distinct character and identity, providing for exceptionally high standards of design, energy efficiency and flood resilience (including addressing identified risks from flooding from rivers and surface water flooding)
  2. Provide permeability through the site including connections to the existing strategic cycle network, new bus routes and a network of attractive and walkable pedestrian routes providing for safe and convenient movement within and between existing and proposed housing areas, the Bowthorpe district centre, the new village centre and the Yare valley and open countryside beyond
  3. Make provision for significant areas of recreational and informal open space, play space, green infrastructure (including retained woodland) and enhance ecological networks to support biodiversity and geodiversity
  4. Respect the character and distinctiveness of the surrounding area, to improve the setting of Bowthorpe Hall and the surrounding conservation area, preserve the open character of the Yare valley and distinctive landscape of the valley edge, and maintain strategic long views through and beyond the development area

 

Policy Map

Policy Map R38