Landscapes Under Threat - Norwich Northern Distributor Road
View from Easton Estate, Nr. Ringland, Wensum Valley, Norfolk.
Photo: Helen B
Treasured by local people and a delight to visitors, in spite of widespread impacts from intensive agriculture, the Norfolk countryside retains significant tracts of land supporting habitats rich in biodiversity.
Until the growing momentum of today's return to lower impact rural land use has gathered sufficient pace to re-establish this harmony, we nurture these unique sites as the seeds of future regeneration.
We entrust them to the care of guardians tasked to protect the distinctive character of their localities, and give names and titles to the land that tell of its sacrosanct status. Such names and titles are ‘Site of Special Scientific Interest' and ‘Special Area of Conservation', as conferred on the Wensum Valley, to the north of Norwich.
Norfolk County Council, sadly, has turned on its charge, planning to cut into this seed of Norfolk's future with a strip of tarmac and force open the wound with the poisonous parasitic development for which it paves the way. This to complete a ring of road around Norwich, the value of which has long been discredited by the experiences of London and other UK cities.
For information on the activities of the No N25 Campaign against the Norwich ‘Northern Distributor Road' please see http://www.norwichn25.org or e-mail nondr03@yahoo.co.uk.