The Norfolk County Council (Norwich Northern Distributor Road (A1067 to A47(T))) Order 2015

Complementary traffic measures

31.—(1) The NDR classified road must not be fully opened to vehicular traffic until an action plan of complementary traffic measures has been submitted to and approved in writing by the relevant planning authority. The action plan must have regard to the Norwich Area Transportation Strategy Implementation Plan Update 2013 (published by Norfolk County Council) and include (but is not limited to)—

(a) the Norwich Area Transportation Strategy (“NATS”) measures within Norfolk County Council’s Capital Programme for 2014/15 and 2015/16;

(b) other NATS measures which Norfolk County Council proposes to bring forward in the period before 2020/21;

(c) a detailed feasibility study for the measures in sub-paragraph (b); and

(d) a schedule of those measures in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) that are to be implemented by the undertaker before 2020/21.

(2) The action plan must contain a timetable for implementation of the measures to be carried out by the undertaker.

(3) The complementary traffic measures set out in the schedule to the action plan approved under sub-paragraph (1) must be carried out in accordance with the approved timetable subject to any review of that timetable approved in accordance with sub-paragraph (4).

(4) No later than 18 months after the opening of the NDR classified road to vehicular traffic the undertaker must submit for the approval in writing of the relevant planning authority a review of the action plan, which must include a timetable for the implementation of any unimplemented measures within the schedule to the action plan approved in accordance with sub-paragraph (1). The complementary traffic measures set out in the reviewed action plan must be carried out in accordance with the approvals given and with the approved timetable.

(5) In addition to the provisions of the action plan for the period to 2020/21 as referred to in sub-paragraphs (1) to (3), the action plan and its review under sub-paragraph (4), must contain a statement of the longer-term measures intended to be introduced in the period up to 2032, such as BRT1, BRT5 and orbital bus routes, and an explanation as to why they cannot reasonably be progressed earlier.