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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Local Info
Norwich Roadworks: Dibden Road Shut Until October 2028
Dibden Road is shut from today until 2028, Mousehold Street is proposed to close on Wednesday, and two A47 slip roads go overnight. Every closure in force.
Norwich
Norwich House Prices Fall £5,243 in a Year to £224,323
The average Norwich home is worth £5,243 less than a year ago. Only North Norfolk fell faster in the county, and flats took the worst of it, down 5.2%.
Norwich
Norwich Soca Seniors Win Third Over-70s National Cup
Bowthorpe's walking football club are over-70s national champions again, their third WFA title after 2021 and 2022. How to join, and what it costs.
Planning
Bank Plain Library Plan: Comments Close 23 September
A library, archive, gallery and cafe would open the old Barclays banking hall to the public. The council is taking comments on 26/00714/F until 23 September.
Council
Norwich Culture Grants: £7,500, and 9am on 30 September
Norwich City Council is taking first-stage bids of £500 to £7,500 for culture projects. The cut-off is 9am on 30 September, and late forms are not read.
Norwich
Norwich City Hall Plans Open for Comment Until 30 September
A light-filled atrium, a civic living room and a repaired clock tower: the council wants views on its City Hall plans by 30 September.
Norwich
Norwich Battle of Britain Parade: Roads Shut 14 September
RAF Marham personnel parade on St Peter's Street on Monday 14 September. St Peter's Street and part of Bethel Street close 10am to 12.30pm.
Parking
Norwich Car Park Charges Rise 21 September: Chantry £22.90
Chantry and Pottergate go to £22.90 all day, season tickets rise 3.2 per cent, and one charge falls by 10p. Every council car park tariff, before and after.
Norwich
Norwich Beer Festival 2026: back at The Halls, 26-31 Oct
The 47th festival returns to The Halls after two years away, 26 to 31 October. Every session time, every door price, and what an advance ticket actually buys.
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.
Nothing is published here that we cannot link to a source.