The Norwich Society's recent report on access to the city centre: Getting Around in Norwich has caused quite a stir. Not surprisingly with all the road works that are going on in Norwich, people are wary of anything that might cause more disturbances. At the minute you have to try to recall not where the roads are closed but where they are open!
The Norwich Society's recent report on access to the city centre: Getting Around in Norwich has caused quite a stir. Not surprisingly with all the road works that are going on in Norwich, people are wary of anything that might cause more disturbances. At the minute you have to try to recall not where the roads are closed but where they are open!
The lower end of the market: The Haymarket. Character is a quality that is hard to define but you know when it is present. I would say that it consists both of robustness and distinctiveness. You can sense it in the built environment as well as in people. Yet it need not be sombre or puritanical – good humour can be a livening part of character as we often see in George Skipper's buildings around Norwich.
The lower end of the market: The Haymarket. Character is a quality that is hard to define but you know when it is present. I would say that it consists both of robustness and distinctiveness. You can sense it in the built environment as well as in people. Yet it need not be sombre or puritanical – good humour can be a livening part of character as we often see in George Skipper's buildings around Norwich.
Does anyone spring clean any more? It sounds like an activity from before the last war – the 1939-1945 war that is – when women ran their homes on a seasonal timetable.
Does anyone spring clean any more? It sounds like an activity from before the last war – the 1939-1945 war that is – when women ran their homes on a seasonal timetable.
Cycling is definitely on the increase in Norwich. There are more cycle shops, more cycle stands and, of course, the new web of pedalways is emerging on our streets. Hanging on to the coat tails of the pedalways is a move by Norwich City Council to reduce traffic speeds in the city centre to 20mph.
