One for those who sit in hedges

[norfolk dumpling]

I drive two days a week and NDR (as its called) is already a pain In the *** - every route North, N/wast or N/east has 30mph restriction but no sign of any activity. This was there to enable them to strip out huge numbers of trees and hedgerows before nesting began but the restrictions have been left in place. Although, as someone has said, it is a road to nowhere, I gather there are plans to connect to the A47 soon after completion. Mid Norfolk Shooting doesn't seem to be affected - the ground clearance so far is a few hundred yards south of the ground. It may make access easier for them for shooters on the other side of Norwich ie me!

[yod dropper]

Yesterday I took one last look round the now tall and heavily scented rape. To get to the same area I'm to be thrown east or west due to limited access points onto the new road as my old routes are closed off. I head through that area to do quite a lot of my fishing as well so this road will increase my journey times in distance alone. Being only a 3/4 route the traffic from the housing and the traffic generated by the road itself will leak through where I live. This isn't even about infrastructure and economic development, only housing and it's a drop in the ocean of what we need to continuously do.

 

Years ago the new owner of a field on the back of our garden tore out the woodland, a meadow, riverbanks and dredged out the small river with a view to improving drainage for house building. I can still recall pretty much every swim, bend, gravel run, pool, set of tree roots, location of plant species, smells and where the crayfish and kingfishers were to be found. That area I knew so well is imprinted on my mind and that was 30+ years ago now.

Edited April 20, 2016 by yod dropper

[mick miller]

Same as where I grew up in Thorpe. I remember being able to walk 90 yards down the lane at the back of the house and be into countryside, fields and horse paddocks.

 

Now all under the Tarmac and bricks of successive housing projects. Still, not as bad as my poor old mum. She remembers when the road we all grew up on was a dirt track, and there was only our house on it!

Edited April 21, 2016 by mick miller

[norfolk dumpling]

When the Southern Bypass was built 25yrs ago (?) we lived nearby and the first year this was opened millions of frogs died on this road or because of this road. We were in their migration path to the Yare marshes near Costessey/Colney and it heartbreaking to see the numbers killed by this road. I have every sympathy with the need to build roads but the environmental issues are often overlooked.

[Harnser]

When the Southern Bypass was built 25yrs ago (?) we lived nearby and the first year this was opened millions of frogs died on this road or because of this road. We were in their migration path to the Yare marshes near Costessey/Colney and it heartbreaking to see the numbers killed by this road. I have every sympathy with the need to build roads but the environmental issues are often overlooked.

The first time that I drove on this road was the day that it opened . I drove from post wick to the Ipswich road junction a distance of about 3 miles and counted 14 dead foxes and 5 dead deer . Whilst under construction the wild life had safe access across the the road . When the road opened they were mowed down .

Harnser