Hi 

 

It was cold, but still, over 300 of you turned out for the Great Big March against the NWL on Saturday!

 

The giant bats and their little cousins were flying, and the faceless bureaucrat with his Norwich Western Link black hole was fed with infinite money.

 

There was a friendly, but determined atmosphere and the speeches were heartfelt. 

 

The March was picked up by the press, with a very positive opinion piece out today -'Ditching the Western Link would mean more bats and less traffic' - which had a great explanation of induced traffic.

 

We have picked up new supporters, and got the word out further, so we think it was a very worthwhile day.

 

 

There will be meetings this week and next at Norfolk County Council about the NWL road. When they apply for planning permission, they will then have a public consultation. We will need you all to take part in this, but hold fire when it comes out, we will be giving you some help to respond to the consultation easily, but we will need a week or two to prepare. So look out for our next newsletter. 

 

Our next event will be handing in the petition , probably on 20th February. It's at over 17,500 now, but do give it a last share around!

 

 

 

Actions meeting 6th Feb 7pm  link to join

 

Lots in the pipeline - petition handover event, a music fundraiser and a bioblitz (citizen science in the Wensum). More fundraising ideas needed too. Please come along - you can just say hi for your first meeting. 

 

 

​​​​​​​More photos and videos of the March (credit James Harvey)

 

 

Lots of shares of everyone's photos and videos in our Facebook Group too!

 

Thanks To Nick Acheson, Kate Baczkowska, Clive Lewis MP and Cllr Jamie Osborn for their speeches. 

And Tom Grahame and Iceni Rising for adding some music and the XR Norwich samba band for drumming us through Norwich.

 

And thanks to all the very many groups that supported us - too numerous to list here - but we are so pleased to be part of such a wide coalition now!