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1. New A47 Trunk Road Eastbound Diverge Slip Road: A new, bifurcated, slip road, from a point on the existing A47 Trunk Road eastbound diverge slip road, where it is proposed to be improved, at Postwick Interchange, 250 metres generally east of where the A47 Trunk Road crosses over the Norwich to Yarmouth and Lowestoft railway line, extending generally eastwards to connect—
(a)for its first bifurcated part with the NDR classified road Postwick North East Roundabout; and
(b)for its second bifurcated part with the northbound carriageway of the NDR classified road, some 60 metres north of the NDR classified road Postwick North East Roundabout,
identified on the street plans ((Sheet 12 of 12)/Smee Lane and Postwick Interchange) by the symbol indicated on those plans for ‘The New A47 Trunk Road Postwick Interchange Slip Roads’ and annotated on that sheet as ‘New A47 Trunk Road Eastbound Diverge Slip Road’, and as is identified on the highway classification plans by a solid green line.
2. New A47 Trunk Road Eastbound Merge Slip Road: A new slip road, from the NDR classified road Postwick North East Roundabout, extending eastwards to connect with the existing A47 Trunk Road eastbound merge slip road, where it is proposed to be improved, at a point 125 metres west of the private access to ‘The Grange’, identified on the street plans ((Sheet 12 of 12)/Smee Lane and Postwick Interchange) by the symbol indicated on those plans for ‘The New A47 Trunk Road Postwick Interchange Slip Roads’ and annotated on that sheet as ‘New A47 Trunk Road Eastbound Merge Slip Road’, and as is identified on the highway classification plan by a solid green line.
3. A 19.8 kilometre highway, to be constructed as the A1270 Principal Road—
(a)commencing from its junction with the proposed roundabout, which will be constructed as an improvement of the A1067 Fakenham Road (‘Fakenham Road Roundabout’), 390 metres west north-west of its junction with Attlebridge Restricted Byway No. 3;
(b)then extending in a generally north easterly, then easterly, direction to its at-grade roundabout junction with the C262 Fir Covert Road (‘Fir Covert Road Roundabout’), situated to the north of the Taverham Garden Centre and to the south of the property ‘Chestnut House’;
(c)then extending generally eastwards, crossing under Marriott’s Way, then crossing and severing Furze Lane (U57168)/Breck Farm Lane (U57168), to the south of the property ‘The Warren’, to its at-grade roundabout junction with the C261 Reepham Road (‘Reepham Road Roundabout’), 450 metres north west of the junction of the C261 Reepham Road with Drewray Drive (U51248);
(d)then extending east south-eastwards, crossing under Bell Farm Track/Horsford Restricted Byway No. 5, midway along its length, to its at-grade roundabout junction (‘Drayton Lane Roundabout’), with two new highway connections to the B1149 Holt Road and the C261 Reepham Road which will replace the former C282 Drayton Lane, just to the south west of the property ‘The Homestead’;
(e)then continuing east south-eastwards to its grade-separated dumb-bell interchange, incorporating two eastbound diverge and merge slip roads connecting with the A140 Cromer Road Roundabout North, just to the south of New Holme Farm, and two westbound diverge and merge slip roads connecting with the A140 Cromer Road Roundabout South, and with the B1149 Holt Road (also to become the A1270), respectively, just to the north of Manor Park Sports Club;
(f)then continuing eastwards, passing to the south of the City of Norwich Aviation Museum and to the north of the Norwich International Airport Control Tower, then north eastwards, to its roundabout junction at the north west corner of Norwich International Airport (‘Airport Roundabout’), 160 metres north east of The Petans Training Centre at Bullock Hill;
(g)then turning south eastwards, crossing and severing Quaker Lane (U57188) and the C251 St Faiths Road where those two highways connect, then eastwards, crossing under the new and realigned C246 Buxton Road, to the north east of No. 318 Buxton Road and to the south of Quaker Lane (U57188), then north eastwards, to its at-grade roundabout junction with the B1150 North Walsham Road (‘North Walsham Road Roundabout’), to the north of the HFG Farm Shop and Garden Centre;
(h)then extending eastwards, then east south-eastwards, to its at-grade roundabout junction with the A1151 Wroxham Road (‘Wroxham Road Roundabout’), 140 metres south west of its junction with Sloe Lane (U57095);
(i)then extending generally south eastwards, crossing under a proposed private access and bridleway bridge, 200 metres south west of the junction of Newman Road (U57490) with Long’s Crescent (U57852), to its at-grade roundabout junction with the C283 Salhouse Road (‘Salhouse Road Roundabout’), 310 metres south west of its crossroads junction with the C258 Green Lane East and C258 Green Lane West;
(j)then continuing south eastwards, crossing over, by bridges, the Norwich to Cromer and Sheringham railway line and the C874 Plumstead Road, just to the north east of the existing railway crossing on the C874 Plumstead Road, to its new roundabout junction (‘Plumstead Road Roundabout South’), with a new connecting Link Road with, and 270 metres south east of, the improved C874 Plumstead Road;
(k)then extending generally southwards, crossing under the C442 Middle Road, just to the west of Oaks Farm;
(l)then continuing southwards, crossing and severing Low Road (U59392), 70 metres to the west of the curtilage of the property ‘The Red House’;
(m)then continuing southwards, crossing and severing Smee Lane (U59400), 90 metres west of the curtilage of Apple Tree Farm;
(n)then continuing south south-eastwards to a new roundabout junction (‘Business Park Roundabout’), 550 metres east of the C829/C830 Broadland Way/C831 Peachman Way Roundabout;
(o)then turning south westwards to a new roundabout junction (‘Postwick North East Roundabout’), on the northern side of the A47 Trunk Road Norwich Southern Bypass; and
(p)then continuing south westwards, on overbridge across the A47 Trunk Road Norwich Southern Bypass, terminating at its junction with the A1042 Yarmouth Road, where it is to be improved to provide a signalised junction, just east of the Postwick Park and Ride Site, and
identified on the street plans, by the symbol indicated on those plans for ‘The NDR classified road’, and as is identified on the highway classifications plan by a solid red line.
4. A 200 metre length of the B1149 Holt Road, to be classified as the A1270 Principal Road, as extends north westwards from its junction with the A140 Cromer Road roundabout junction (‘Cromer Road Roundabout South’), identified by cross hatching on the street plans ((Sheet 5 of 12)/Cromer Road Interchange to Old Norwich Road), as the north westerly arm off the Cromer Road Roundabout South, and as is identified on the highway classification plans by a red pecked line.
5. A 450 metre length of new highway, to be constructed as the A140 Principal Road, from its junction with the B1149 Holt Road/A140 Cromer Road roundabout junction (‘Cromer Road Roundabout South’), extending generally northwards, and incorporating a new roundabout (‘Cromer Road Roundabout North’) at a point 280 metres north along its length, to its junction with the existing A140 Cromer Road, at a point 110 metres north of its junction with the unnamed highway (Cromer Road to West Lane (U57647)), identified on the street plans ((Sheet 5 of 12)/Cromer Road Interchange to Old Norwich Road) as new highway W, and as is identified on the highway classification plans by a solid pink line.
6. A 550 metre length of new highway (‘Broadland Gate Link Road’), to be constructed as the A1194 Principal Road, from its junction with the C829/C830 Broadland Way/C831 Peachman Way roundabout junction, extending eastwards to its junction with the NDR classified road Business Park Roundabout, identified on the street plans ((Sheet 12 of 12)/Smee Lane and Postwick Interchange) as new highway SS, and as is identified on the highway classification plans by a solid purple line.
7. A 385 metre length, being the whole of the C829 Broadland Way, to be classified as the A1194 Principal Road, from its junction with the A1042 Yarmouth Road roundabout junction (‘Postwick North West Roundabout’), extending northwards to and including its roundabout junction with the C830 Broadland Way North and C831 Peachman Way, as appears on the street plans ((Sheet 12 of 12)/Smee Lane and Postwick Interchange), and as is identified on the highway classification plans by a pecked purple line.