Norfolk Wildlife Trust have released the planning consultation e-action!

Tell NorfolkCC what you think about Norwich Western Link:
 

It will help you respond on issues such as:

🌳Legally protected species in the Wensum Valley are at risk

🦆No chance to fully repair or replace what's lost

🚘Cutting carbon and meeting climate targets is at risk

Spreading this action beyond our 'bubble' 

After you have put in your response please talk to people and ask them to take part too. If you haven't ever really shared anything or talked about the NWL before, now is the time you will have most impact!

You can:

• Forward this email
• Share our social media posts eg this one.
• Send the e-action link to your what's app groups
• Talk to people in person - tell them to go to stopthewensumlink - we come up easily in a search.
• Get a poster to put up, leaflets to leave out at work/cafe/community space (with permission) - pick up at upcoming events (see below)

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Why taking part in the consultation is important

• This supports the road scheme being 'called in' to the Secretary of State - so issues will be aired in court, rather than NCC marking their own homework and waving the project through. 
• NCC keep trying to claim this road is 'the will of the people' - we need to make clear it is not. We want results they cannot possibly spin in the press.

Numbers of responses is key to both!

However, responses do need to be 'high quality' too i.e. that objections are on valid planning grounds, not feelings or wider issues. The e-action will show you how to do that.

But if you would like to object on grounds beyond the ones set out in the e-action, we will have some further advice prepared soon on a small range of topics (we can't cover everything that is wrong with this scheme, so we are just covering the big-hitter issues). This should be out next week. So hold -on til then so that you can ensure you are objecting on valid planning grounds.

If you can make your response more individual, then that's better, but the main thing is to respond!

Thanks for stepping up, together we can stop this road!

The Stop the Wensum Link Team

This is hundreds of organisations, small ones like ours, and the big hitters like The National Trust and The Woodland Trust. It's the first time so many have come together for one event. 

There are coaches being laid on specially from Norwich, so you can arrive with a group.

Let us know if you can help with leafleting for a short period on the day.