The land south of Meadowland Drive, adjacent to Ollands Road was previously approved by Great Yarmouth Borough Council for the construction of 77 dwellings. Building on this land would mean the cul de sacs of Ollands Road and Meadowland Drive would be ripped open to squeeze in these 77 houses and bungalows. 

A section 73 application has now been submitted by the developer to make changes to the site. These changes will now be coming before Gt Yarmouth Borough Council's planning committee for approval.

Between 2013 and 2026 Bradwell has endured 1055 new houses!

What infrastructure have we had to support this? Absolutely nothing substantial! 

Doctors and Dentists cannot cope. James Paget Hospital cannot cope. Where are our new Doctor's and Dental surgeries in Bradwell?

Demand for ECHP's for children with Special Education Needs is off the scale - the education system cannot cope.

There are multiple issues with the proposals, notwithstanding how the narrow Ollands Road is and would never cope with the two way traffic from 77 new dwellings - which could see an extra 144 cars using the most conservative predictions!

The traffic from this site will all feed down Ollands Road, Meadowland Drive - onto Primrose Way, Burnet Close further compacting the already overburdened Beccles Road. It is already impossible to get out of this estate at peak times due to other housing projects that have overwhelmed Bradwell

Ollands Road is  a standard residential street. It was never designed to act as the primary distributor road for a 77‑home estate. Its geometry, width, and visibility lines reflect normal domestic use — short trips, low speeds, and modest traffic volumes.

When a development funnels all vehicle movements through a single point, that road becomes the effective “spine” of the estate.  That spine is Ollands Road and Meadowland Drive. This means every car, delivery van, refuse truck, and construction vehicle must pass through a street that was not engineered for that scale of use. In planning terms, this raises questions about capacity, safety, and long‑term suitability.

The new internal layout introduces revised road alignments, turning heads, and parking courts. These changes may improve movement within the development, but they do not alter the fundamental constraint: all internal roads still converge on these small exit routes.

In planning terms, internal improvements do not mitigate external pressure. A well‑designed internal network still relies entirely on the capacity and safety of the single access point at Meadowland Drive and Ollands Road.

Emergency access is one of the most important considerations in estate design, all rely on Meadowland Drive and Ollands Road as their primary route.

If that route is obstructed — by parked cars, a collision, flooding, or other activity — emergency response times can be affected. This is a recognised material planning issue because it relates directly to safety and resilience. Ollands Road is far too narrow to support this activity.

Quite simply, our roads cannot cope - just look at these numbers of houses that have been built since 2013 - 1055 new houses and bungalows - and you can start to understand why our roads are completely overwhelmed. Now they want to compact it further - not with just these 77 houses which will overwhelm this estate - but a further 29 houses off Kings Drive! Can you imagine the impact on Beccles Road?

Aside from the obvious infrastructure we are missing following the overdevelopment of Bradwell, drainage is a massive issue! The land here is prone to flooding with an assessment of medium to high surface flood risk. Its known for pooling after heavy rainfall and slow infiltration due to clay soils.   The proposed development increases impermeable surfaces, meaning more water needs to be captured, stored, and released slowly. Our sewerage systems cannot cope with the colossal increased demand from multiple housing developments across Gt Yarmouth.

This development in unwanted, not needed and should be rejected.