Thank you NWT for coordinating this letter. It was crass and ill advised of the highest order for those politicians to attack a person just doing their job, one which ministers and MP’s are fully aware of but like most in this government choose to ignore when they want to, 3 of these MP’s are standing down at the next election! This issue is just backing local politicians who ignore facts, procedures, people, and common sense, doesn’t make it right. A road through an internationally important habitat, a chalk river and a nationally important bat population isn’t listening especially when there are alternative routes ok a mile west and over sterile farmland but they are alternatives. A road that cost £100 million per mile, just think about that for a second!! It’s not economically viable, you could build Bernard Matthews a factory, a new ambulance station and new ambulances for NNorfolk and still have change!! These MP’s haven’t read the latest reports out this week reposted by me and others that people want fast clean public transport not more roads, they want choice to use good timely fast public transport when they can and cars when they can’t, they want to reduce cars on the roads so public transport works faster because people have got the fact climate change is happening, but I suppose that’s not convenient for the MP’s or for businesses that didn’t move with the times and now find where they are non profitable in a global economy and lack of European markets. This road across this space is not needed, viable or cost effective and there are alternative routes including upgrading the existing Lenwade to Hockingham road. Ok rant over Those MP’s should know better and should stop victimising people doing their job.
Not only have Norfolk County Council ignored years of evidence and advice and submitted a planning application for the Norwich Western Link... 🤨 But some of Norfolk's MPs have written to the Secretary of State to out-manoeuvre Natural England's bat guidance which could block the road, labelling their dedicated work as 'arbitrary' 🙃🥺 Today we're hitting back with our own letter to DEFRA Secretary of State: https://lnkd.in/ece3nRMY This isn't just about the road. Across the UK, we want to see our Government helping to advance the prosperity of our communities in harmony with our wildlife, not damaging it further 🤝💚 Holly Nichols 🎥
