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Council waits 25 years to look at plans to boost weakest link
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After 25 years Norfolk County Council is finally to consider plans to improve the link between the A47 and A1067 Chris Tindall reports.
A MULTI-MILLION-pound scheme to upgrade a C-road in Norfolk which handles nearly 700 LGV movements a day will go before council members this month, 25 years after problems first arose.
The link road between the Al 067 at Lenwade and the A47 at Hockering has been in desperate need of improvement for years but it was only last year that a public consultation finally began to gauge public support on various potential schemes.
As well as hundreds of trucks travelling through the tiny villages on the minor road thousands of motorists clog up the route every day. Bernard Matthews has a factory nearby and the A-roads filter into Norwich from Fa k en ham and King's Lynn. Norfolk County Council (NCC) says it will recommend a combination of two road improvements and the creation of a roundabout on the A47 to direct LG Vs away from Hockering. The total estimated cost is £6.7m.
However, an NCC summary report on the proposals warns there could be delays due to "uncertainty over funding" and even if the scheme is agreed it will need to be prioritised over other plans in the council's Forward Capital Programme.
David Sprunt of NCC says: "In this area there have been ongoing problems for 20-25 years-600-odd LGV movements a day for [what is] effectively a C-road is high.
"In reality, it involves upgrading it to a B-road.
"It will be of benefit [to hauliers] because it will be a much better quality of route between the two locations," he concludes. "At the moment it's very much a slow crawl; stop and start."
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