Broadland Remembrance Sunday: 8 Nov and the Thorpe closure

Broadland is the district wrapped around the north and east of Norwich, and it is really two things at once. Sprowston, Thorpe St Andrew, Hellesdon, Old Catton, Taverham and Drayton are Norwich’s own edge, where most of the population lives. Out past Rackheath and Salhouse it becomes the Broads: Wroxham, Horning, Brundall, Blofield and Acle on the water, with Aylsham, Reepham and Coltishall inland to the north.

Broads News covers both halves. The council for all of it is Broadland District Council, which moved out to a shared headquarters on the Norwich ring road in 2023. Its planning register, licensing notices and committee papers are where most of what happens here is settled, and we report from those with a link to the document each time.

Start with these

• Broadland house prices: the district average is £314,426 and rising 7.6% a year, the fastest in Norfolk. We read 1,841 Land Registry sales to give a median for every parish, from Wroxham at £437,500 down to Acle at £256,000.
• Trains to London: no Broadland station has a direct service. Brundall to Liverpool Street is 2h18 changing at Norwich, and the last train home leaves London at 20:30.
• Roads and travel: the new A47 dual carriageway at Blofield is open, Broadland Northway resurfacing is booked into February 2027, and a group of five can park and ride into Norwich for £5.
• Things to do: ten days out with 2026 prices, two of them free, all checked against the venue’s own site.
• Planning news: 3,850 homes approved at North Rackheath in February 2026, at 12% affordable against a 33% policy target, and a housing land supply of 4.85 years.

Elsewhere: News for what the record shows, Local Info for the reference pages, and What’s On for the week on and around the water.

Every fact is linked to the source it came from.