Comment
Draft Greater Norwich Local Plan – Part 1 The Strategy
Representation ID: 22486
Received: 16/03/2020
Respondent: Highways England
Highways England welcomes the opportunities through land use policy to reduce the need to travel. By maximising these opportunities, such as remote working will reduce capacity pressures on the Strategic Road Network which is essential to ensure ongoing excellent connectivity and facilitate economic growth.
The polices should be sufficiently flexible to adjust to changing government policy, infrastructure needs and innovation, such as the evolving provision of electric vehicles, and provide sufficient measures/indices to monitor delivery at a local level with stretched targets. The referenced policy documents will likely change over the plan period. This link to Rising to the Climate Crisis - A Guide for Local Authorities on Planning for Climate Change (2018) is not available.
Thank you for inviting Highways England to comment on the Regulation 18 Draft Review of the Greater Norwich Local Plan (GNLP), which is prepared jointly by three local authorities - Broadland District Council, Norwich City Council and South Norfolk Council through the Greater Norwich Development Partnership (GNDP). This document expresses our views on the Draft Strategy and Site Allocations for future development as mentioned in this GNLP.
Highways England is responsible for the operation, maintenance and improvement of the Strategic Road Network (SRN) in England on behalf of the Secretary of the State. In the area within and surrounding Norfolk, this relates to the A11 and A47 trunk roads.
Consequently, our comments on the draft Local Plan which are set out below are limited to those aspects/strategies which may have impacts related to these two trunk roads.
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