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Food hygiene Norwich Food Hygiene: Lowest Five-Star Share in Norfolk Norwich City Michael Wynn Jones Dies at 85: Book of Condolence Times Events Norwich What's On: Beer Festival and Halloween Ghost Walks

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  1. On now to 3 Oct Matthew Bourne's The Car Man Norwich Theatre Royal · From £21.20
  2. On now to 4 Oct The Addams Family, Sound Ideas Theatre Company Norwich Playhouse · From £26.50
  3. Sat 3 Oct Norwich Record Fair 9am · The Forum
  4. Sat 3 Oct Norwich parkrun 9am · Eaton Park · Free
  5. Sat 3 Oct Norwich: One Community, Many Hearts 10.30am · The Forum · Free

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Council tax Norfolk Council Tax 2027: Up to 5% Rise and £32m of Cuts Norfolk County Council will consult on a 3% or up to 5% council tax rise and £32.3m of savings, including less gritting and paid bays in Norwich. · 6 min read Charity Lakenham Charity Needs £20,000 for Fire Exit: £200 Raised Community Action Norwich must widen a fire exit and replace a wheelchair ramp after a fire service review. Its appeal had £200 of £20,000 on 27 September. · 3 min read Theatre Norwich Playhouse Revamp Approved: Lift, Garden, Work 2028 Norwich Playhouse has planning permission for a lift to every floor, more toilets and new community space. Building could start in 2028; the theatre stays open. · 3 min read Roads Britannia Road Norwich: Two of Seven Plans Shut the Road Two of the seven options would close Britannia Road to motor traffic. Officers are at Plumstead Road Library today, and comments close on Sunday 11 October. · 7 min read Christmas Norwich Christmas Market 2026: Chapelfield, 11 to 20 December Christkindl Market fills Chapelfield Gardens from 11 to 20 December, free on weekdays before 3pm and £2 for adults after. The Forum fairs and dates too. · 3 min read Christmas Norwich Cathedral at Christmas 2026: Carols, Services, Hours Carols in the Cloister is Saturday 12 December at 4pm and Midnight Mass starts at 11.15pm. Every Norwich Cathedral Christmas date, plus festive opening hours. · 3 min read Remembrance Remembrance Sunday in Norwich 2026: Sunday 8 November Remembrance Sunday is 8 November. Last year Norwich gathered at City Hall's war memorial at 10.30am, then paraded to the cathedral. Route and road closures. · 3 min read Christmas Santa's Grotto in Norwich 2026: Dates, Prices, Booking Winter Wonderland's grotto at Norfolk Showground is £26.15 a child, weekends from 21 November plus 21 to 24 December. Jarrold's 2026 grotto is still to come. · 4 min read Parking Norwich Airport Parking: Park and Ride Eyed for Hellesdon Hellesdon's county councillor put the park and ride idea in writing on 11 August. Overnight parking there is still banned, and no traffic order is advertised. · 8 min read Charity Geoffrey Watling Charity Tops £11.35m and 2,302 Grants The Norwich charity has now given £11,351,572 in 2,302 grants, 69 of them since March. Recent Norwich recipients include Sewell Barn Theatre and The Feed. · 5 min read Norwich Carrow Works Plan: 300 Homes First, 1,300 in All Homes England will show plans for up to 300 homes at the old Colman's works on 2, 3 and 6 October. The wider site has room for about 1,300 in all. · 7 min read Norwich A11 Reopens a Day Early After Thickthorn Bridge Lift The A11 reopened at 6am Sunday between Thickthorn and Wymondham, 24 hours early, after the bridge lift. National Highways' own pages still said Monday. · 8 min read
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Norwich has a tight boundary. The city council’s area stops well short of where the city actually stops, so streets that are Norwich in every practical sense sit in the districts next door and get their bins collected by somebody else. That is one of the reasons this site exists. It was due to change in April 2028, when a new Greater Norwich authority would have taken in the city along with parishes from Broadland and South Norfolk, but the government withdrew that decision on 7 September 2026 and put the whole reorganisation under review.

Until then, and after it, our job is the same. Read what the council publishes, the planning register, the licensing notices, the committee papers and the budgets, and write down what is in them plainly, with a link to the source on every fact.

Start here

  • Norwich house prices: £230,000 is the middle of the past year’s sales, and the ward tables show why that number moves so much across the city.
  • Trains to London: 1 hour 39 minutes on the fastest train, £10,716 a year on a season ticket, and every weekday departure.
  • Roadworks and travel: what is closed now, the A47 Thickthorn work, and all six park and ride sites.
  • Things to do in Norwich: the castle keep is open again, and ten more days out in the city cost nothing.
  • Planning: housing need is up 34%, land supply is 4.85 years, and Anglia Square is coming down.

The main sections

  • News: the record, from the planning register to the courts.
  • Local Info: the practical pages above, kept current.
  • What’s On: what is happening in Norwich this week.

Nothing is published here that we cannot link to a source.