First Event Review

Housing and Design

• What do we want for Hingham?
  • A decent takeaway
  • 20mph actually observed
  • Safety for pedestrians/speed control and crossings
  • Small groups of new housing not big estates – fitting with Hingham’s historic character
  • Houses that are affordable for local people
  • Brown rather than green sites (infill)
  • Nimby’s need to be more realistic – charge is constant
  • No more big estates. Small development
  • No more estates, namely Abel, poor houses
  • Character houses, not the same
  • Housing to reflect local population
  • If it happens there are some builders than Abels
  • No more new housing estates!
  • Water drainage improved. Pavement access to centre improved
  • No more new housing estates!
  • Affordable housing for young people
  • New pavements instead of grass. Earth to be recycled to asset with and level instead of slope
  • Aesthetically pleasing houses not all the same
  • Good quality and contemporary design for new housing. Shared spaces/home zones too
  • Decent pavements
  • No more new houses!
  • No more estates. Need a PO
  • No more new buildings please
  • A water supply that matches existing needs
  • No more new buildings please
  • Keep Hingham small and friendly
  • More parking
  • A Post Office
  • Regular bus service to Attleborough and Dereham
  • Different builder to proposed housing on Norwich Road as the Hops is not the sort of housing Hingham wants
  • Housing in character with the town
  • Pavements
  • To improve housing provision to be nature friendly – bat boxes, hedges, swift bricks
  • HOP2. The residential housing estate presents itself very well from the Norwich Road. Make sure HOP2 does the same. Trees/grass/plants
  • Post Office
  • We don’t want to lose the essence of Hingham by too much growth
  • Housing that connects safely for pedestrians to all Hingham’s services
  • Crossing near Coop
  • Post Office
  • Pavements (wheelchair and pushchair friendly)
  • Don’t ruin Hingham please
• Where should housing go in Hingham?
  • Watton Road not Norwich Road
  • Redeveloping land already built on. Not farmland
  • Fill ins. Brownfield sites, not farmland
  • Close to existing housing
  • Use plots that are not large. Keep small
  • Use the assisted living accommodation in Hardingham Road, i.e. for local people, Ukrainian Refugees
  • Fill in the gaps rather than build large estates
  • Houses should be built in the gaps in the town. Not huge estates at the edges
  • No more large estates please! No talk of doctor’s surgeries/schools!
  • No more big estates. Fill in the gaps
  • Fill in the gaps. No big housing estates. Don’t build where it floods
  • Watton Road
  • Where it can be sensitively incorporated, knits in with the existing layout of streets, lanes and paths
  • Houses should be built in the gaps in the town. Not huge estates at the edges
• What type of housing should there be to meet local need?
  • Affordable homes for young people. Green homes, solar, hedges not fences, swift bricks, nest boxes, pond, communal green space
  • Real affordable housing for local people
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Small developments

  • Bungalows for the elderly
  • Housing that is affordable and suitable for young people
  • Small developments rather than large areas

  • Small developments like at the end of Chapel Street

  • Small developments rather than large areas
  • Small developments
  • Mixed, but must include a higher % of social housing, cleverly designed for low running costs/every use

  • Small developments, cul-de-sacs etc
  • Small developments
• How should new housing be designed?
  • In-keeping with the village
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To be carbon-neutral and energy efficient
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Parking is needed

  • Eco friendly. Water tanks beneath all new housing. Grey water tbe used for toilets, cleaning cars and watering gardens (as done in Belgium by law)

  • All new housing to have sufficient parking for longevity – lots of homes have 2 or more cars
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Low energy, Passive house design. Good layouts, less domination of the car but must be done to still accommodate them
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Eco friendly housing – heat pumps, solar panels. Affordable for lower incomes

  • Housing with car parking
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Character houses not little boxes, as pete segger song. Little boxes make out of ticky tacky

  • Houses built in character with a market town

  • Housing that can provide car parking! Too much street parking
  • To fit in with historic character and be eco friendly

  • Eco friendly and nature friendly