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Representation ID: 623

Received: 10/03/2014

Respondent: Babergh District Council & Midsuffolk District Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

It is essential that supporting infrastructure is available to provide for the level of growth proposed. BDC/MSDC are gravely concerned about the impacts of housing on transport infrastructure. Bringing forward the Northern Fringe proposal earlier in the plan period (before 2021) could mean that infrastructure is required earlier, or require different mitigation. The Borough need to make clear the consequential impacts on congestion and deal with the long-term problems caused by intermittent closure of the Orwell Bridge. Appropriate traffic modelling needs to be available to inform such decisions, based on the latest scale, distribution, and phasing of development.