Published:
6:00 AM March 11, 2021
Ian Alston has plans for a Food Hub near Easton. Picture by Adrian Judd
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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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The Ringland Estate.
- Credit: Savills/Archant library
The Ringland estate, near Norwich, which originally went up for sale in 2018 for £9.75m, has been sold.
The estate in Honingham Lane, has at its core a five bedroom residence, Ebony Hall, which has an indoor swimming pool, set in parkland by the River Wensum.
When the estate went on the market in July 2018, the property also included a two bedroom apartment, all with extensive river frontage, together with three further estate houses.
The original package also included 588 acres of arable land, 122 acres of pasture and grazing and 178 acres of mature woodland.