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Bracondale Lodge had been acquired by Jeremiah Colman MP in 1877 and had remained in the ownership of the Colman family until it was demolished to make way for County Hall in 1966. [ 4 ] The new building was designed by Reginald Uren in the Modern style , [ 5 ] built at a cost of £2.5 million [ 6 ] and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth ...
Norwich City Council is the local authority for Norwich, a non-metropolitan district with city status in Norfolk, England. It consists of 39 councillors, elected to represent 13 wards, each with three councillors. It forms the lower tier of local government in Norwich, responsible for local services such as housing, planning, leisure and tourism.
The architects Charles Holloway James and Stephen Rowland Pierce, designed the building after Robert Atkinson had prepared a layout for the whole Civic Centre site at the request of the then Norwich Corporation (the then county borough reconstituted in 1974 as the City Council). A competition took place in 1931 which attracted 143 entries, with ...
The Norwich Northern Distributor Road, now officially named the Broadland Northway (but commonly known as the NDR) is a 12.4 miles (20.0 km) dual-carriageway linking the A47 to the south east of the city to the proposed Rackheath Eco-town and Norwich International Airport to the north of Norwich before finishing at the A1067 Fakenham Road to the north west of the city.
The Norwich-New London-Westerly NECTA is the metropolitan area surrounding the Norwich/New London urbanized area using towns as building blocks. This definition contains 22 towns and adds the towns of Canterbury, Lyme, Old Lyme, Voluntown, as well as the towns of Westerly and Hopkinton in Rhode Island (the latter of which now became part of the Providence–Fall River–Warwick, RI-MA NECTA).
It is situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Wymondham and 9 miles (14 km) south west of Norwich. [1] The civil parish has an area of 6.24 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 493 in 199 households, the population increasing to 528 at the 2011 Census [ 1 ] and to 582 at the 2021 Census.
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The county council was elected by and provided services to the remainder of the county outside those two boroughs, which area was termed the administrative county. [4] Shirehall, Market Avenue, Norwich: Council's meeting place 1889–1968. The first elections were held in January 1889, and the council formally came into being on 1 April 1889 ...