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4:18 PM January 9, 2021
Updated:
11:49 AM January 11, 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
Norwich City Council s in principle support for the £153m Western Link of the Northern Distributor Road looks like being pulled, after Norwich Labour Party members backed their county counterparts who had opposed the scheme.
Norfolk Labour county councillors announced in July 2019 that they opposed the £153m road, which Norfolk County Council wants to build to connect the NDR to the A47 to the west of Norwich.
But, up to now, Labour-controlled Norwich City Council has adopted a more circumspect approach - that the road had its conditional support, dependent on a package of other transport investment and mitigation measures.
Decision by Maidstone Council to reject plans for 440 homes in Otham overturned
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Updated: 14:32, 08 January 2021
Maidstone Borough Council s (MBC) decision to reject plans for more than 400 homes in Otham has been overturned by a government inspector, leaving the authority potentially with a costly bill.
A planning enquiry in November jointly considered two appeals by housing developer Bellway: one an appeal for non-determination of an outline application for 440 homes, and the other a refusal by the council of a detailed application for 421 homes, both on land west of Church Road, next to St Nicholas Church.
The planning inspectorate overruled MBC s decision to reject plans for 400 homes on this site
Published:
10:56 AM January 7, 2021
Updated:
4:29 PM January 7, 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
Campaigners against the Norwich Western Link have made fresh calls for it to be scrapped - after the submission of the business case for it was pushed back again.
The route of the proposed Western Link. Pic: Norfolk County Council.
- Credit: Norfolk County Council
But that was then postponed to the cabinet meeting of January 12. However, it will not be discussed there and is now pencilled in for March.
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Wimbleball Lake in Exmoor
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“There she is,” says Jennie, as we crane our necks skywards. “Cassiopeia – the queen seated on her throne.” Five bright stars pop against the velvet night in a distinctive M shape. “You want to park her in your mind, because she’s the answer to finding your way around a lot of the sky.”
We’re on the brow of a hill fringing Exford, in deepest, darkest Exmoor National Park. Jennie, who leads stargazing walks up here with her tour company, Wild About Exmoor, is navigating me around the heavens. With warm enthusiasm, she creates constellations out of scattered dots and draws together sections of the cosmos with animated tales of Greek mythology. The result is mind-blowing, a Eureka moment – I’m looking at something I’ve seen a thousand times afresh.