Suffolk: Campaigners' rally cry against plans for 310 homes

Kirton and Trimley Community Action Group (KATCAG) has sent leaflets to residents in Trimley St Martin and recently called a public meeting about Trinity College, Cambridge's plans for the large development on an old poultry farm at the junction of Trimley High Road and Howlett Way.

A public consultation period about the plans ended on Wednesday, but KATCAG fears vehicles from the homes could pose a danger when joining High Road, while the proposals will occupy agricultural land that could have helped prevent predicted future food shortages.

Cllr Richard Kerry is supporting the plans for 310 homes (Image: Paul Nixon/East Suffolk Council)

In the leaflet, KATCAG states: "We say ‘Howlett Way’ will destroy the village landscape character along with the destruction of irreplaceable prime grade agricultural land desperately needed to feed generations to come.

"The village of Trimley St Martin will become ‘enclosed’ and will never ever  be the same as we now know it."

However, a statement about the plans on the Trinity College website said the land had been earmarked for development as part of the Local Plan.

The statement said the site would provide homes for workers in Felixstowe who had been forced to commute from neighbouring areas because there was an insufficient number of properties to cope with the town's growing population.

Contributions are expected to be made for infrastructure projects, including a new primary school to be built on the opposite side of High Road and an early years centre.

However East Suffolk councillor Richard Kerry, who represents Trimley St Martin, backed the scheme, so long as Anglian Water could provide assurances sewage provision would be upgraded to cope with the extra properties.

Nobody from the college was available for comment.