• Minutes of the Parish Council meeting of 3rd January 2018

    03 01 2018 minutes

  • Plumstead Road four-week closure from Monday

    Plumstead Road four-week closure from Monday

    Three-way lights on B1150 North Walsham Road

    Plumstead Road will close for four weeks from Monday 15 January for work to connect the road with the A1270 Norwich Northern Distributor Road dual carriageway.

    This could well be the last really disruptive phase of work of the whole project – along with three-way lights on the B1150 North Walsham Road, also from Monday (see right).

    The Plumstead Road closure will be between Thorpe End and the junction with Broad Lane. The work involves realigning Plumstead Road to connect with a new roundabout that has already been constructed. Once complete, a short link road from this roundabout will provide access from Plumstead Road to the main roundabout on Norwich NDR (see below).

    The width of Plumstead Road and the nearby railway level crossing mean that the work cannot be carried out under temporary traffic lights, and so a full closure of the road is unavoidable. Unfortunately it is not possible to maintain safe access for pedestrians or cyclists.

    Plumstead road showing new roundabouts

    New roundabouts and link road (left) that will link Plumstead Road to the NDR dual carriageway. Picture Mike Page.

    Diversion route

    Traffic heading to and from Norwich should use Salhouse Road. The marked diversion will be (from the Plumstead side of the closure) north along Broad Lane/Green Lane East to the Sole & Heel roundabout, west towards Norwich on Salhouse Road, returning to Plumstead Road via Woodside Road. (Same route in reverse for journeys from the city side of the closure.)

    It had been hoped that Middle Road, Great Plumstead, would be open to provide an alternative local route, but very wet weather at a critical time saturated and damaged the earthworks and prevented surfacing before Christmas. Instead, Low Road and Smee Lane will be kept open.

    Middle Road reopening

    The target for Middle Road is opening in February. Asphalt base layers will be going down next week, and on Wednesday (17th)Tarmac lorries will need to go through Great Plumstead to supply asphalt for use on the eastern embankments.

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