Published:
6:00 AM March 11, 2021
Ian Alston has plans for a Food Hub near Easton. Picture by Adrian Judd
- Credit: Adrian Judd/Archant Norfolk 2010
The Norwich Western Link (NWL) will enable economic growth and safer roads, a Norfolk landowner and farmer has said.
Ian Alston, of Honigham Thorpe Farms, said having good access to trunk roads was a “key ingredient” for food companies, like his Food Enterprise Park, for distribution, without which investors will simply go elsewhere.
“I cannot overemphasise the importance to Norfolk’s economy of this crucial new link road,” he said.
“Investors need food facilities near trunk roads and near towns and cities.
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