Norwich

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Norwich.

News

Networks and sustainability initiatives

• Norwich Eco Hub, connecting people with like-minded individuals and organizations who are working to make a difference in the community. Actively working to create partnerships and co-develop local projects that promote the sustainable development goals. added 13:55, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
• Norwich, Resilience Web, "Resilience Webs are interactive digital maps of most environmental and social justice related organisations working within and for a place." added 14:23, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
• The Greenhouse, Norwich's Environment Centre
• Transition Norwich

UK and international events

UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events

Norwich video

Food activism

• Grapes Hill Community Garden
• Norwich FarmShare

Housing

• WINNER: Large Projects category, 2025 Exemplar Sustainable Building Awards...passivhaustrust.org.uk

Towards sustainable economies

• Norwich Doughnut on facebook.com, added 14:17, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Community resources

• The Common Room

Visions

• Possitopia Norwich, activating Norwich for a greener future, added 14:15, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

• Repair Café Norwich

Sustainable transport activism

From Wikipedia:Norwich park and ride

The Norwich Park and Ride is a park & ride bus service in the English city of Norwich, East Anglia. The first of the park and rides was opened in the early 1990s at Norwich Airport in Hellesdon, while the sixth and final site was opened in Thickthorn in 2005. With the addition of the final site, the Norwich Park & Ride became the largest park and ride services in the United Kingdom, and provided the scheme with over 5,000 permanent parking spaces – at the time the highest number for a park and ride scheme in the country. The scheme was awarded the British Parking Association Park and Ride award in 2004, and in the 2006/2007 financial year, 3.3 million people used the service, keeping 940,000 cars out of the city centre.

Proposals in the Norwich Transport Strategy include limiting traffic on some roads, introducing five rapid bus links into the city, and creating a 'train-tram' link to the Rackheath ecotown.

Waterways: The River Yare is navigable from the sea at Great Yarmouth all the way to Trowse, south of the city. From there the River Wensum is navigable into Norwich up to New Mills, and is crossed by the Novi Sad Friendship Bridge. Scheduled trips through the city and out to the nearby The Broads are run by City Boats from outside Norwich Station and also Elm Hill. In June 2012, Norwich City Council gave the go-ahead to introduce punting on the River Wensum.

Cycling activism

From Wikipedia:Norwich § Cycling

National Cycle Route 1 between Dover and Tain (in the Scottish Highlands) is the only route in the National Cycle Network to pass through Norwich. Norwich City Council maintain seven colour-coded cycling routes in the city known as Pedalways. An attempt was made in 2015 to improve Pedalways, which attracted scrutiny from local residents and cycling campaigners alike.

Sustrans plans to build a bridge between the Riverside area and Whitlingham County Park as part of the Connect2 project from the National Lottery. The country park is currently disconnected from the main residential areas by the River Yare and River Wensum.

Open spaces

As of 2015, the city has 23 parks, 95 open spaces and 59 natural areas managed by the local authority. In addition, there are several privately owned gardens which are occasionally opened to the public in aid of charity.

From Wikipedia:Plantation Garden, Norwich

The Plantation Garden is a restored Victorian town garden located off Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk. As of 2021, visitors are asked to pay £2 to visit the garden, which is open daily throughout the year.

About Norwich

From Wikipedia:Norwich

Norwich ( , "Norritch";) is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about 100 mi (160 km) north-east of London, 40 mi (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 mi (105 km) east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider Norwich built-up area had a population of 213,166 at the 2011 census.

As the seat of the See of Norwich, the city has one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals. For much of the second millennium, from medieval to just before industrial times, Norwich was one of the most prosperous and largest towns of England; at one point, it was second only to London. Today, it is the largest settlement in East Anglia.

In August 2007 Norwich was listed as one of nine finalists in its population group for the International Awards for Liveable Communities. The city eventually won a silver award in the small-city category.

See also

• Topic overview: Networks, Community resources, Food activism, Visions, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle, Open spaces activism, Sustainable transport activism, Cycling activism, Towards sustainable economies
• UK context: Networks UK, Community resources UK, Food activism UK, Visions UK, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK, Open spaces activism UK, Sustainable transport activism UK, Cycling activism UK, Towards sustainable economies UK