Work to build an access road for a proposed 420-place school is due to start next month. 

The work comes as part of plans submitted by Norfolk County Council to build a new primary school in Blofield in anticipation of an influx of more pupils from new housing schemes.

The housing has already seen the existing village school massively oversubscribed.

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Planning permission has been granted for more than 400 houses in the village over the last 10 years.

The proposed school site, located just off Plantation Road, does not have a frontage onto the road so a new access route needs to be built.

It will also provide the access route for the expansion of the doctor's surgery.

Work is due to start on Monday, April 3, and will involve the construction of the side road, kerbing, footway and installation of a foul sewer and a surface water drainage system.

It is expected that the work will take 11 weeks to complete.

The majority of the work will be off the road itself but there will be temporary two-way traffic lights on Plantation Road while kerbing works are carried out.

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Plantation Road will be closed for the connection of the new foul sewer to the existing system.

A signed diversion route will be in place during this time and will be signposted at the site closer to the time.

The work will cost £470,000 and will be carried out by Norfolk County Council’s Community and Environmental Services Department and its contractors.