THE NORTHERN CITY CENTRE AREA ACTION PLAN

The Northern City Centre Area Action Plan is being prepared by Norwich City Council's Planning Department in conjunction with local stakeholders (community and trade associations, landowners, institutions and heritage bodies) and will lay down how this area of the city can be developed, in terms of new housing and commercial developments, social amenities such as parks and play areas, transport infrastructure and environmental sustainability.

St Augustine's Community Together Residents' Association (ACT) is a Stakeholder in this process.

May 2010. Click here to read the latest NCCAAP newsletter.

January 2010. A meeting of the Stakeholders' Forum is attended by the ACT Secretary, who volunteered to represent local residents on the first Programme Board in February in order to ensure that the concerns of local residents are heard during this final implementation period of the Plan. 

August 2009. To view a copy of the latest issue of the Stakeholders' Newsletter, click here.

July 2009. Norwich City Council have now submitted the Northern City Centre Area Action Plan to the Secretary of State. Copies of the plan and supporting documentation can be viewed at City Hall and at the Millennium Library (2nd floor) in the Forum or at the Council website: http://www.norwich.gov.uk/webapps/atoz/service_page.asp?id=1701 

30 January 2009. The deadline for commenting on the Northern City Centre Area Action Plan has been extended to 27 February (5 p.m.) For more information and to complete an online submission form with your comments on whether or not you think the Plan is "legally compliant", or "justified, effective and consistent with national policy".

8 December 2008 to 30 January 2009 (5 p.m.) - Consultation period under "Regulation 27" of the Plannuing Regulations. Responses to the Northern City Centre Area Action Plan, which was approved by Norwich City Council in October (see below), can be made during this period (on the official consultation response form available from the City Council's Planning Department in City Hall). Responses have to be related to the "soundness" of the plan, e.g. whether the plan in legally compliant, and whether the plan is justified, effective and consistent with national policy.

21 October 2008. Northern City Centre Area Action Plan, including the construction of a one-way gyratory traafic scheme for St Augustine's, is approved by Norwich City Council. The Secretary of SACTRA attended a full Council meeting at City Hall as a member of the public. During the meeting the majority of Norwich City Councillors voted in support of the Northern City Centre Action Plan report, which will now go out for public consultation and then to the Secretary of State for the Environment in early 2009 for Government approval. In the vote the Green Party group abstained. During the debate on the report the Green group of councillors had asked for an amendment removing the gyratory scheme from the report and for it to be replaced by a scheme to make St Augustine's partly pedestrianised, as the majority of local residents had wanted when previously consulted. This gyratory scheme had come in for serious criticism by councillors in the Conservative, Green and Liberal Democrat groups during the debate. However, when it came to the vote only the Greens voted for the amendment, so it failed.