News on NWL Initial Views

Thanks to everyone who's responded to the consultation so far, we're getting close to 400 responses which we're really pleased with at only five days into a eight-week consultation.

Thanks also to the 70-odd people who came to our first consultation event at Ringland Village Hall on Thursday, it was good to meet you all and interesting to listen to what you had to say. We hope you found it useful.

Some of the people who came to the Ringland event were expecting to be able to look at some potential route options for the 'missing link' between the NDR and the A47 - sorry if the lack of this was disappointing to any of you.

At this stage, we want you to tell us what you think the transport issues are in the area to the west of Norwich and what, if anything, you want us to do about them. We'll then use this to help us propose some options.

We have lots of informal feedback about transport problems to the west of the city but this is the first time we have carried out a public consultation on this and we think it's really important to gather this evidence to help us come up with the best possible solution.

We've got eight further consultation events in the diary so there are plenty of opportunities coming up to come and speak to us about the consultation and respond in person. The next one is at Hockering Village Hall next Thursday (17 May) and the following week we're at the Hall for All in Weston Longville on Tuesday 22 May. Both events are open from 10.30am - 8pm and we'd be very glad to see you there.

Anyone who can't make it to our events can of course respond to the consultation online via www.norfolk.gov.uk/nwl.

Please help us get the message out about the consultation by telling your neighbours, relatives and anyone you know who might be interested, we don't want anyone to miss out on having their say. The consultation closes at midnight on Tuesday 3 July so there's lots of time to spread the word! Thanks for any help you can give us.