Norwich Local Plan: 18 sites put forward, comment by 28 Sept

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, and it is about to change: from April 2028 a new Greater Norwich authority is due to take in the city along with a set of parishes from Broadland and South Norfolk.

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.