Stop the Western Link road campaigners did it!
The Planning permission application for the NWL has been withdrawn!
This is effectively the end of the Norwich Western Link road plan! To start again with a new route or plan, Norfolk CC would have to redo surveys, consultations - start everything from scratch. They just don't have the money to do that.
A huge well done to all the Stop the Western Link campaigners!
It was the bats what done it....
This is a victory for nature. A rare occasion where it has been wildlife protection laws that stopped a road project.
Obviously there were many other flaws to this plan - cost, carbon, car dependence. But this is hopefully a case that shows that laws that protect our precious ecology are there to be followed, not circumvented when they are inconvenient.
There is the small matter that Norfolk CC knew all about the bats at least 4 years ago so it never should have got this far but.....