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Norwich Greens release website road movie

A Boswell | 17.09.2005 22:10 | Free Spaces | Cambridge

Norwich Green Party has released a short “road movie” on its website. Called “Let the bad dream fade”, the movie explores the impact that the NDR road and associated Council plans for Norwich to be a “Growth point” for housing developments.

Norwich Green Party has released a short “road movie” on its website. Called “Let the bad dream fade”, the movie explores the impact that the NDR road and associated Council plans for Norwich to be a “Growth point” for housing developments. This follows recent revelations that an 8,000 home “urban village” is planned on Norwich northern outskirts.



Green councillors are calling for the NDR road scheme to be abandoned, and the County Council to abandon plans for large new developments. The Greens say that locally Norwich needs is affordable housing on brownfield sites. Nationally, new development should be concentrated in the north of England, where regeneration is needed, rather than in the south and south-east, where the economies are over-heating.



Cllr. Adrian Ramsay said “These plans to create a ‘greater Norwich area’ would become one of the worst examples of the growing national problem of sub-urbanisation. Each programme, a road, a new housing estate, or complete new “urban village” seems a small step by itself, but incremental developments in such housing, roads, and airports are accumulating quickly - at the rate of 21sq miles per year across England. That is an equivalent area to a city the size of Southampton lost to land development each year. “



Cllr. Rupert Read said “It is disgraceful that the County Council go on trying to promote the NDR road scheme and these superheated growth plans for Norwich. It is plain to see that new roads are carving up what's left of our countryside, and rampant new housing schemes are destroying rural England. Our website ‘road movie’ explore this in a slightly amusing way, I suggest your readers click to tinyurl.com/c6vqr and sit back and enjoy the sounds of the beautiful Tud valley”.





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The “road movie” may be seen at tinyurl.com/c6vqr.

A Boswell