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Gayton Road works - work on drainage and TROD>

The following message has been received from the NCC regarding the work that was just commencing to improve the drainage on the corner of the road adjacent to the Old Station Yard.

The contractor has been told to pull off the site due to an objection voiced by the owner of the land at the Old Station Yard.

The full text/explantion of the  reasons for this are explained in the following e-mail.


Subject: PLA 304, LMF, Gayton Road, Trod & Drainage

 

Dear Cllr Moriarty and East Winch Parish.

 

 

I am writing to update you on the works at the above location.

 

Following an encounter with the Gang on site and Mr Nunn, the land owner of the Old Station Yard, Gayton Road, East Winch,  and a subsequent discussion between Mr Nunn and myself this afternoon,  we unfortunately have had to take the difficult decision to ask Norse to pull off the site.

 

A Section 100 notice was sent to Mr Nunn at the address provided on the Land Registry search. This Section 100 as delivered by hand to 76b Rhoon Road, Terrington St Clement by the locality designer, we had no response to this correspondence and work began today 12th August 2024 to install drainage pipes across the land that belongs to Mr Nunn. The Norse gang on site were approached by Mr Nunn yesterday morning and he asked if they had permission to dig on his land. The ganger on site passed this query back to his manager and then to the locality designer.  

 

Mr Nunn had left his telephone number with the ganger so I called him back to explain what the scheme involved and explained we had sent him the necessary documentation to allow us to discharge highway water into his ditch but had, had no response.

 

Mr Nunn is adamant that we are not going to dig in his land. I explained that we had delivered the Section 100 letters to the address we had on the Land Registry records but he explained he had moved now and hadn’t received them.

I now have his new address.

 

Following a lengthy discussion we failed to find a solution. Mr Nunn has decided and has said that he will be placing a cabin on his land until this dispute has been rectified, so we can’t get to the area we need to excavate for the drainage installation. This stops the whole scheme because we needed the drainage to be in place to build the footway over the piped verge.

 

I took advice from Karl Rands in Jason Moorse’s  absence and explained the situation. I also spoke to Steve Williams, Norse Highways and Ryan Easter, Locality Designer.

 

It has been agreed following those discussions that we will pull our works from the site until we can gain access to the land.

 

We plan to resend the Section 100 letters to Mr Nunn at his new address today by recorded delivery following protocol and procedure to gain access to the land.

Norse will reallocate the scheme to a later date in the programme and the gang on site will be placed elsewhere once they have closed the excavations and made the site safe.

 

This is an unfortunate turn of events and I have no doubt there will be some negative feedback from members of the public and parishioners. NCC have followed the correct procedure to date. Our apologies for any inconvenience this will cause to the Parish.

 

This email is to bring everyone up to speed with the situation and we will restart the Section 100 procedure again today.

 

Kind regards

 

Alexandra Copeman

Parking Infrastructure Engineer

CES - Infrastructure

Tel: 01553 778019 | Dept: 0344 800 8020 |

County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich

   

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