Councillor Kay Mason Billig

16/10/2025

Today we finally agreed our Devolution Deal for Norfolk and Suffolk. That’s £37.4 Million every year for the next 30 years, of new money for economic development. Well done everyone, it’s been a long road but we made it.

12/10/2025

09/10/2025

Come and join us, be part of the solution.

06/10/2025

Guess where I am?

02/10/2025

FAST BUSES

The roadworks pain is over, the new bus stops on the A146 at Loddon will be operational from Sunday 5th October.
(This picture was taken at the The Hales stop before someone points it out!)

16/09/2025

SPEEDING
I asked the Police if we could have some extra patrols through Loddon and Chedgrave whilst the A146 roadworks are continuing, as we were getting more through traffic.
They have been attending with their Safety Camera Team and hopefully, drivers are getting the message.
We respectfully ask, that those using our roads, especially in residential areas, observe the speed limit please.

12/09/2025

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Councillors will consider a report which says one council for Norfolk would mean better services, local decision making and bigger savings.

Local Government Reorganisation is on the agenda this month when councillors meet on 22 and 25 September.

The reports for the 22 September meeting have just been published - see link in comments

Find out more: www.norfolk.gov.uk/onecouncil

02/09/2025

LODDON ROUNDABOUT NEWS

I am pleased to be able to tell you that the closure of Mundham Road and George Lane is at an end. The barriers will be removed TODAY.

There is still work to be done to complete the footpaths on the A146, so the traffic signals will remain in place until that is done.

02/09/2025

SOLVING THE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS IN LODDON - what is the solution?

We are all aware that our town was not built to cope with modern traffic, both volume and size. Despite the bypass (when functioning) we have massive issues in the centre. So how do we solve this?

We have looked at stopping the parking in the High Street, but that causes knock on problems. If you look at how the traffic moves in Bridge Street, where no parking is allowed, you will notice that many cars speed, because there are no restrictions. The worry is that we create another racetrack in the High Street if we remove the “natural traffic calming“ caused by parked cars.

There is also the issue of displaced vehicles for those who live on the High Street and who don’t have private parking. We have to consider them too.

A traffic survey is being organised for Loddon, to look at our options, but I can see that there is unlikely to be an easy and obvious solution. e.g. Making the town centre one way would be difficult, because some of the roads that the traffic may be displaced to (Kittens Lane, High Bungay Road) have schools and children using them or are narrow in places.

We also have to accommodate buses, bin lorries and delivery vehicles through the centre of town. The pavements are very narrow in places, and we cannot reduce the carriageway width, because this would prevent the bigger vehicles using it. We don’t want the buses to refuse to service the centre of the town as a result of any changes. As you can see, I have thought long and hard about this, as have many others.

My current ideal solution would be to move the Fire station to Beccles Road and reuse their High Street site for more car parking. We could then remove the parking on the roadside, repave the High Street and Bridge Street with a rougher/cobbled surface (not nice to speed over) and more speed tables which would encourage a reduction in through traffic speed.

With the extra parking in town, we would have the opportunity to reuse some of the Church Plain car park as a public open space, for events. It strikes me as unfortunate that when we are laying wreaths at the war memorial, we have to partially shut the car park and marshal the traffic for the safety of the people attending. This would also give a better frontage for our beautiful church and a better outlook for our lovely and picturesque centre of town, which is just hidden by parked cars at present.

However, a scheme like this would cost £ Millions, which we don’t have. So, you can see the dilemmas. I will continue to work towards improving things, because I appreciate local people are fed up with the current situation and something must be done.

I would welcome your thoughts on this and any suggestions. Would you support my solution for the High Street, if we could find the money? How much disruption would you put up with whilst this work happens? It would be very inconvenient whilst changes were made, and I know how unpopular this would be, so we would need public support to make this happen 🙄