Bressingham Hall owners calm noise fears over wedding venue plan

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The Bloom family of Bressingham has moved to calm fears that a proposed wedding venue at the Grade II-listed Bressingham Hall will lead to noise and traffic hazards.

Headed by Adrian Bloom, the chairman of the Blooms Nurseries business, the plans were put in to safeguard the future of the hall and the Bressingham Gardens attraction, which, it is claimed, are generating maintenance bills that are becoming to high to meet.

The plans would see the redevelopment of old farm buildings into spaces that can accommodate weddings and other events at the site, off the A1066.

But there have been about five objections to the scheme, including from the Young family living at nearby Bressingham Lodge, which Mr Bloom claims is about 200 metres away from the proposed site.

Roger Young said: “It has certainly caused my wife and I quite a lot of stress and anxiety.

“We bought the house about 18 months ago with a view to having a nice place in the countryside to bring up our family.”

Mr Young’s main concern is noise from music from wedding parties. He said: “We have three kids, aged five, three and ten months. As a parent, you want your children to be able to sleep through the night.”

He said the application as it stood seemed incomplete, with no noise assessment.

Mr Bloom told the Diss Express this week that all music events would be held either in a barn with 430mm thick masonry walls, or in the new venue building with insulated panels. Old windows and doors would be replaced with double glazing and he was organising an acoustics report testing noise levels.

He said a proposed road exit near Bressingham Lodge on to the A1066 would be scrapped. Mr Bloom estimated 30-60 weddings a year would be held.

He said: “We wish to provide a high quality venue which will benefit many local businesses, including the Steam Museum, and which will ensure that we can do essential works to the listed Bressingham Hall and the barns and keep the gardens open for the benefit of the public. Without this new income stream the future of the site is in jeopardy.”