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Doing things that didn't get as far as had been hoped...

Remember all the exhibitions and consultations about development of the riverside east of the City back in 2006?
[Click here for back story].

Consultants, commissioned by East of England Development Agency (EEDA) to prepare a 'masterplan study' for the Deal Ground & Utility sites, delivered their draft report to Norwich City Council in January 2007.
Two months of silence followed.
Then we received a short 'position statement' from the Council.
It said that the consultants' report hadn't given them what they needed to make decisions (we still don't know what it actually contained).
So they were going to commission more 'investigations and studies' from yet more consultants, to look at traffic, flood risk, contamination and viability aspects - all of which were part of last year's studies by the consultants engaged by EEDA!

Drift mode?

In reply at the time, Norwich Rivers Heritage Group told the City Council at the time:

The people who commissioned the report - who were not the City Council itself - seemed to have had a poor return for their money.

The proposed next stages would guarantee further loss of time.

The cycle and pedestrian links which the Group had worked for since 2002 if anything looked further off.

None of that has done much for the City Council's credibility.

Cause for new hope?

Following the new management arrangements, dare we hope that there is new impetus to progress, and a possibility that the citizens of Norwich may yet get their paths and links?