After the 1953 floods and storm surge of December 2013 had devastated businesses, homes and communities it was very clear that we needed this flood defence scheme.
With Lowestoft being the only urbanised coastal area in the UK with no formal flood defences, the flood risk has been a constraint to economic growth in the town.
The start of construction works to reduce the risk of flooding in Lowestoft is marked. Picture: Pagepix Ltd
- Credit: Warren Page
But now, with the tidal flood barrier to built in Lowestoft’s outer harbour - due for completion in spring 2026 - work is under way on the tidal flood walls to the north and south of the barrier that will protect the town from flooding.
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3:21 PM May 19, 2021
Artist s impression of a viaduct which could take the Western Link over the River Wensum. Photo: Norfolk County Council
- Credit: Norfolk County Council
A decision to pick the contractor to build the controversial £153m Norwich Western Link - and to submit a business case for the road to the government - is due to be made within weeks.
To be in with a chance of securing funding and consent for the road, which would link the Norwich Northern Distributor Road to the A47 to the west of the city, Norfolk County Council needs to lodge a business case.
Published:
3:21 PM May 19, 2021
Artist s impression of a viaduct which could take the Western Link over the River Wensum. Photo: Norfolk County Council
- Credit: Norfolk County Council
A decision to pick the contractor to build the controversial £153m Norwich Western Link - and to submit a business case for the road to the government - is due to be made within weeks.
To be in with a chance of securing funding and consent for the road, which would link the Norwich Northern Distributor Road to the A47 to the west of the city, Norfolk County Council needs to lodge a business case.
BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham is against the building of the Western Link
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Springwatch presenter Chris Packham has asked the people of East Anglia to find some bravery and say no to the controversial Western Link Road.
During a YouTube episode of his Self-Isolating Bird Club on Sunday morning, the naturalist derided the Norfolk project as an unjustifiable threat to the super colony of rare Barbastelle bats living in a woodland between Weston Longville and Ringland.
The route of the proposed Western Link which environmental campaigners say would destroy a Barbastelle bat super colony
- Credit: Norfolk County Council