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.
