There is insufficient detail as to HOW transport provision will be improved for the outer reaches of the GNLP area. The focus is too heavily on Norwich and Major road networks (A roads). There is no commitment to improvement within Hingham which is situated on the B1108 which is subject to ever increasing traffic numbers and carries traffic from the large areas of development in and around Watton/Carbrooke (Breckland).
The policy document notes that Hingham has "good transport links". This is not an accurate description. The Joint Core Strategy 6.53 describes Hingham as having a “limited bus service”, since the JCS was adopted there has been a reduction in bus services and threats of loss of the already severely limited direct bus service to Dereham .
In the context of the climate emergency where we need to encourage everyone to be less reliant on cars and to use public transport as much as possible, this strategy document, taking us up to 2038, is very much lacking in ambition and concrete provisions of improvement to transport links. Currently buses are available to Wymondham, Watton and Norwich every 30 minutes and buses to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and Research Park once an hour, also buses stop at around 7pm.

In terms of employment the document states Hingham is "well located to benefit from additional employment opportunities in the Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor" - this does not seem an accurate description in the context of reliance on public transport when there is one bus an hour to the Research Park and a bus to the Hethel Innovation Centre (a 20 minute drive) would take 2 hours via Norwich. In addition, no consideration has been made to account for the fact that Hingham is on the very edge of South Norfolk bordering with Breckland and that people could quite conceivably want to travel to Attleborough or Dereham for work, local amenities or leisure and there are either limited or no public transport links directly available to these places at all (a bus to Attleborough would take over an hour verses a 10 minute drive by car, and to Dereham a 40 minute bus ride is only available twice a week, otherwise an hour and a half bus journey versus a 20 minute drive).
In terms of leisure a night bus service, enabling people to return from the city after going to the theatre or seeing a band would also be very welcome. For a strategy that claims to aspire towards a "radical shift away from the private car" current plans seem woefully inadequate.
There is no mention in Policy 4 of road infrastructure improvements to support additional traffic through the rural communities forced to accept more housing development, and no commitment to ensuring that infrastructure will be enhanced to try to ensure greater adherence to speed limits.
There are long held concerns over the safety of the B1108 Fairland crossroads – More housing development in Hingham and the surrounding areas will only increase the vehicle numbers using this already dangerous crossroad. Hingham Town Council have applied for (and have been successful) NCC Parish Partnership bid for a feasibility study into the Fairland/B1108 junction safety improvements. In order to support further development of Hingham, if it is proved to be feasible to improve this junction, a firm commitment needs to be made from the Highways authority to undertake the work.