COUNCIL NEWS
NORTH NORFOLK DISTRICT COUNCIL Message from County & District Councillor Nigel Dixon
Highways Pot Hole Repairs You will know from the news media that our national Highway network has suffered much surface deterioration during this particularly difficult winter and Norfolk is equally affected. The roads have also suffered structural damage from a greatly reduced program of resurfacing over several years – this when the top layer is planed off and a new lay of tarmac laid; this not only replaces the wearing and friction layer but also keeps the structural foundations water proof and thus doesn’t suffer frost cracking damage. Instead, most of our roads have been surface dressed – is when tar is laid on the road and then granite chippings laid on top; it simply adds a new wearing and friction layer. This means that many of the pot hole repairs are less effective and don’t last so long and that’s why we have so many during freezing winter weather. However, the reporting, inspection /assessment and repair system is that they can be reported by any member of the public via the NCC website, or by phone to the NCC call centre (0344 800 8020) or even to the local Parish Council Clerk. Any of these methods will ensure they are logged and listed for attention according to prioritisation criteria. Which basically means how big, how deep, which road and where on the carriageway, it is; they are usually paint marked when assessed and awaiting repair. Clearly, there are capacity limitations in getting them done because many of the pot hole repair teams are also the drivers that have been laying salt and grit and clearing roads during the nights and days when we have had frost and snow. If you see a pot hole please check whether it’s paint marked and if in doubt please report it; if it’s already been reported then it will usually show up as a repeat report or if it’s a new pot hole very near one another then please make that clear when reporting it.
Preparation of New Local Plan The current Local Plan, which sets out where housing, commercial and infrastructure development should go throughout North Norfolk, is due to expire in 2020 and the New Local Plan will run from 2021 to 2036. NNDC has been working on this for the past year or 2 and expects it to be finalised by 2020. The process began with an assessment of needs across the District and then allocating that, in broad terms, throughout the major towns and villages; taking into account the development likely on the Broadland side of the boundary, such as at Wroxham. Last year there was a call for landowners to put forward possible sites and those have been filtered to identify the most favoured. Last month NNDC and Hoveton Parish Cllrs visited those sites to consider the pluses and minuses of them and to express early views. Planning Officers are about to select the most favoured and they will be presented for residents to view and comment on in a public consultation to be started shortly. I will let you know when happens and tell you which sites are favoured and why.
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