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Project management

NRHG view - cautious optimism

Norwich Rivers Heritage Group takes a positive view of the potential of the proposed management scheme, tempered with some necessary caution.

Positive features:

  • The Connect2 project and the Deal Ground & Utilities Site developments below naturally together as complementary in the regeneration of the River Gateway area.  That is how the Group first looked at them in all its work after the City Council first called it into existence in 2002.
  • In the short term, it could unlock funding from landowners and developers for the necessary works on the DG&U sites, making a useful contribution to resolving the funding problem.
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    • More significantly, the result could be harmonious development of both the local economy and the unique but fragile river environment - with the one supporting rather than undermining the other.  This is the end for which NRHG has researched and presented evidence and practical proposals for seven years now.

      A role for NRHG:

    • The Group is shown on the diagram as having equal status with the other major stakeholders.  That presents an opportunity not just for 'information sharing' (a bland phrase which can mean much or little), but for contributing the unique resources of knowledge we have gained from our work, as embodied in our River Gateway report.  NRHG could provide authoritative influence on the nature of the ultimate development solutions.

      Connect2 route map

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