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News from the Woottons

Richard Coates
New County Councillor? to a good start. You’ll remember compare quality of finish in due
Borough Councillors Michael de it’s got a site next to the new course because Allison Homes
Whalley and Simon Ring are the doctors’ surgery on the edge of hopes to have its first show
two voters from the County South Wootton and it expects to homes completed by November
Council Freebridge Division who apply for planning permission although the first houses for sale
have formally asked that an around the end of August but, as won’t be ready until next Spring.
election be held to fill the that could take some time to If you can’t stretch to half a interesting viewing if you’ve
vacancy left by the recent death come through, I don’t expect to million pounds and you must heard about something the
of the previous county councillor be able to tell you any more until have 5 bedrooms in a new house, Council or a Committee has
John Crofts. You’ll remember the end of the year. you could go to Persimmon’s discussed that’s of interest to you,
that he had held the seat for less House on the Green Lavender Fields estate off even months after the event.
than a year after the death of the Nursery Lane, South Wootton Large Load
previous incumbent Nick At last this old pub has been where you can still have your 5 There was an exceptionally large
given planning permission to be
Daubney. Why am I talking about bedrooms but for only £465,000. load that travelled through South
“Freebridge” in News from The completely renovated and also You’ll have smaller rooms and Wootton in August and an
extended a little. The owner now
Woottons? Well Freebridge is you’ll not get that second ensuite identical load is scheduled for
75% made up of The Woottons needs to prepare a plan for the but it does give you a choice! Sunday 15 September. It’s a 184
proposed marketing of the
ward, plus the villages of What will there be on the new tonne transformer and it’s due to
Grimston, Pott Row and Roydon. restored public house as that is estate at Knights Hill? No details leave King’s Lynn docks at 9.30
one of the many planning
Castle Rising is already included have been released yet but work a.m. for Norwich, arriving at 2.00
in The Woottons. conditions to build the five new on the new roundabout is p.m. Because of its very heavy
houses. Note: he doesn’t actually
Michael de Whalley has proceeding and I’m hoping it will weight, it has to travel on an
previously contested this seat a need to do the work, just prepare be finished before the winter’s exceptionally long trailer that
a plan to do it! But that must be
year ago for the Green Party rains start and bring mud to distributes the weight across 16
when he got 24% of the voters done before any of the houses can Grimston Road. axles and that makes for a very
be occupied.
cast, up from the 20% he got in long trailer and it has to be pulled
Those five houses have shot up
New Street Names
2021. So, does it mean that but there’s a lot of work needed There might only be the by a powerful tractor unit, itself
Simon Ring will be standing for quite big. Needless to say, it
election? We won’t know who is inside these 4 bed, 3 bathroom temporary access road to build won’t be going round any tight
houses (yes two en-suites seems
the new roundabout at the
standing until after nominations corners and many road signs and
close on 15 August and that’s to be the standard these days!). At Grimston Road estate but the street furniture will be removed
Council is way ahead on some
an asking price of £550,000, four
after the deadline for Town and so that it can get by. If you want
Around articles but I have heard of them have already been sold things such as naming the new to watch the sight as it proceeds
and they should be ready for
roads. More than a score of them
that Jason Law is standing for the slowly along Edward Benefer
local Conservatives. There’s occupation from around later this and among the nondescript Way and up Grimston Road,
Cherry Grove and Robin Avenue
year.
usually a Labour candidate and, South Wootton, under police
as the Lib/Dems took the seat last New 5 Bedroom houses there are a few gems such as escort, pick your spot of the most
Edwin Seaman Close, Frederick
time, we can probably expect Meanwhile, Allison Homes have street furniture (traffic lights?
they’ll stand a candidate again released details of some of its Knight Drive and Fernley Close. roundabouts?) and take the kids
Edwin Seaman lived at Rising
this time. large houses at its Edward to see this rare sight. Don’t plan
Assuming that there’s more Benefer Way estate, including a 5 Lodge as a farmer and dairyman. to drive to Norwich that Sunday
than one candidate so that an bedroom home on its first phase He had a dairy on the site and his morning!
election has to be held, it will be at a similar price of £575,000. family were the last occupiers
before it became a hotel.
on Thursday 12 September at the Again, this has two en-suites but Peacocks
usual polling stations. two downstairs toilets (making a Frederick Knight lived there in South Wootton Parish Council’s
1845 followed by his son Fernley.
about
referendum
informal
total of five all told!). It doesn’t
Independent Living Then there are some names that peacocks that are common in
Project have a separate study like the many of us can relate to: Rising parts of the Oak Avenue estate
That independent living project I North Wootton houses but some Field Road, Hare Gardens, Deers has now closed but the results
mentioned last month has got off of the room sizes seem a bit Row, Red Kite Way and Peacock will not be revealed until the
larger. It will be interesting to Drive. Parish Council meeting on 10
September (7.00 p.m. in the
West Winch housing Parish Meeting Room, Church
If you think that The Woottons Lane). However, when I looked at
has more than its fair share of the comments made by people on
new housing estates, let me tell the Woottons Community
you about West Winch to the Facebook page, I counted 9
south of King’s Lynn where there people for the peacocks and 2
are plans for over 4,000 new against them. Will that reflect the
houses. A special planning Council’s referendum count?
committee meeting has been Turn up to the meeting to find
called on 28 August to consider out!
that. All Council and committee There’s always something
meetings are open to the public to interesting happening in The
hear what’s said; details are on Woottons. If you know of things
the Council’s website. Or you can that I haven’t heard about, please
watch from home on the tell me at
Council’s You Tube channel cllr.richard.coates@west-
either live or it’s available after norfolk.gov.uk.
the event. Always some