Norfolk Chamber is holding a breakfast event with Norfolk County Council, on 26 November at Norwich City Football Club, which will look at the fast moving developments in transport. The breakfast is aimed at business leaders and CEOs from businesses across Norfolk who are interested in hearing about travel and transport developments in and around Norwich, in particular the impact and benefits of the Norwich Northern Distributor Road and its place in the wider ‘Transport for Norwich’ strategy.
The breakfast is free to attend to all Chamber members. For details on the event and to book you place click here.
Investment in the Norwich Northern Distributor Road (NDR) will help unlock thousands of jobs and support the development of up to 10,000 new homes. It will open up access to Norwich International Airport, large areas of Broadland and North Norfolk and business areas in the north-east sector of Norwich.Preliminary work will have started, ahead of main construction around March next year.
The NDR also enables progress on a number of other transport initiatives that come under the Transport for Norwich banner, including the latest city centre changes, further cycle route developments and Bus Rapid Transit.
Recently there has been a lot in the press about the delays in the start of the NDR. The Wensum Valley Alliance recently announced that it had launched a legal challenge to Norfolk County Council’s decision over funding for the NDR. Their claim being that the County Council meeting – where the Council agreed to put forward £10m towards the £30m funding gap, after the cost of the road escalated – was unlawful.
Today, Norfolk County Council announced that they would hold an Extraordinary Meeting to make the decision again, in an attempt to sidestep the legal challenge by the Wensum Valley Alliance. The meeting will take place on 6 November 2015.
