A blueprint for where millions of pounds could be spent on new roads, homes, country parks, walking routes and railway stations in Norfolk has been unveiled.
The plan details the major schemes which council leaders say must be priorities over the next 10 years.
Projects in the Norfolk Strategic Infrastructure Delivery Plan, put together by councils across the country, include:
- The £22m Attleborough Link Road, which would unlock 4,000 new homes
- The £96m Gateway Thetford project - to attract new businesses by improving the area around the town's railway station
- The Norwich Western Link, Long Stratton bypass and A10 West Winch access road.
- The £22m Broadland Business Park rail station - a long-held ambition to get a new station built to serve the business park
- A new £26m secondary school at Rackheath
- Improvements to the A17/A47 Pullover Junction at King’s Lynn
- New Broadland and Burlingham country parks
- A 46-mile circular walking route called the Green Loop, encompassing the Marriott’s Way, Bure Valley Path and Broadland Way
- A new Western Link road for North Walsham
- The East Norwich Regeneration scheme, which could deliver up to 4,000 homes at the former Colman's site
- £15.3m to create a Great Yarmouth Learning Centre and University Campus
Inclusion in the plan, which will be discussed by the council's cabinet next month, is not a guarantee the schemes will happen.
But Graham Plant, the Conservative-controlled council's cabinet member for highways, transport and infrastructure, said: "It provides a clear pipeline of schemes that can attract investment, which could include money flowing from the county deal and Norfolk Investment Framework."
But Steve Morphew, leader of the opposition Labour group at County Hall, said: "It is not addressing the impact of the high levels of development on our county or the need for more local services, especially doctors, dentists and hospital beds."
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