Hoveton Community Council

  • Road Closure (B1354 Horning Road West)

    Due to resurfacing works, the B1354 Horning Road West, Hoveton, will be temporarily closed (except for access) between the hours of 9am and 4pm on Thursday 21st February. This closure will extend from the A1151 Stalham Road junction to the Tunstead Road junction, and the work is expected to take one day to complete, subject to suitable weather conditions.

    A fully signed official diversion via A1151 Rackheath, A1270 Broadland Northway, B1150 Coltishall and B1354 Hoveton will be in place during the works. For vehicles over 13ft, the diversion route will extend along the B1150 from Coltishall to Scottow and Tunstead Road to Hoveton.

  • Emergency Road Closure (Neatishead Road, Horning)

    HPC has just received notice from Norfolk County Council that, owing to emergency BT works to replace a frame and cover, the use by vehicles of the C401 Neatishead Road from its junction with Long Lane for a distance of 100 metres southwards will be temporarily prohibited from 1st February to 5th February 2019. Alternative route is via Horning Road, Norwich Road, A1151 Stalham Road, A1062 Horning Road/Ropes Hill, Neatishead Road (Hoveton, Neatishead, Ashmanhaugh, Horning).

  • Norwich Western Link Consultation

    Norfolk County Council wants to create a Norwich Western Link to improve travel between the A47 and the western end of Broadland Northway (formerly the Northern Distributor Road) and to tackle transport problems in the area. A public consultation on the four shortlisted routes for a Norwich Western Link is now open and will run until midnight on Friday 18th January 2019. The consultation responses will be used to help Norfolk County Council identify a preferred route for the Norwich Western Link in spring 2019. To find out more about the different options, or to have your say in the consultation, visit www.norfolk.gov.uk/nwl.

  • Preparing For Winter

    With winter now upon us, Norfolk County Council (NCC) has launched its Norfolk Winter information-sharing campaign, designed to help people cope during the colder months. As part of this campaign, regular gritting updates and other useful advice will be posted under the #NorfolkWinter hashtag on Twitter and Facebook.

    NCC currently has around 16,000 tonnes of salt stocked. Current gritting routes, along with the locations of grit bins, can be seen on the map at www.norfolk.gov.uk/gritting. Your Parish Council recently obtained permission from NCC to site a third grit bin (in addition to bins located in the Broads Centre shopping precinct and next to Wroxham Bridge) at the upper end of the village. The most suitable location for this bin is currently being negotiated with NCC, who will fill the bin with grit.

    NCC is in the process of replenishing all existing grit bins (close to 2,000 bins, county-wide) and hopes to complete this work soon. Local residents are welcome to use this grit on public pavements, cycle paths, and roads that do not form part of the existing treated route. Hoveton Parish Council hopes that those residents who’ve been in touch to request an extra grit bin for the village will be pleased to hear a new bin will soon be on the way. Your Parish Council would also be interested in arranging a network of gritting volunteers for the village, so please get in touch if you can help with this.

    Finally, if there are any local businesses or community groups who would be interested in making a donation towards the cost of Hoveton’s new grit bin, or who’d like to ‘sponsor’ this bin, please contact Cllr Alex Howe (ahowe@hoveton-pc.org.uk or 01603 783 096).

  • Temporary Closure of Littlewood Lane

    Regular readers of this blog will be aware that new foul water and electricity connections works which were due to begin on Saturday 6th October on Littlewood Lane were deferred to a later date. A revised start date of Thursday 22nd November has now been given for these works, with the works due to continue until Thursday 6th December. During this period, Littlewood Lane, Hoveton, will be temporarily closed to traffic (except for access).