{"id":700419,"date":"2026-07-19T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700419\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:43:14","slug":"chaos-amid-long-delays-at-longwater-retail-park-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700419\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos amid long delays at Longwater Retail Park, Norwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The chaos erupted at about 12pm on Sunday (July 19) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningnews24.co.uk\/news\/26269675.man-charged-series-retail-thefts-norwich\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Longwater Retail Park.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Motorists say they were left stuck in traffic, which they have described as &#8220;carnage&#8221;, for as long as three hours, with cars stuck moving at a &#8220;snail&#8217;s pace&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One driver said that it took her one hour to move from The Range to Costa, which are only a stone&#8217;s throw away from each other, while attempting to leave the car park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes amid ongoing Anglian Water works, which have forced National Highways to close a slip road outside Next and one lane of the main carriageway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The closures are due to remain in place until July 23, but councillor Gary Blundell has asked if they could be carried out overnight instead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve just spoken with the out-of-hours highways team regarding the ongoing works at Longwater and the significant disruption they are causing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They have agreed to speak with the works team to see whether there is any scope to reduce the impact on motorists, including whether some or all of the works could be carried out overnight instead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;These works are not Norfolk County Council&#8217;s but are Anglian Water&#8217;s, so they may not be able to change the permit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;At this stage I can&#8217;t say whether that will be possible, but I felt it was worth asking the question.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chaos erupted at about 12pm on Sunday (July 19) at the Longwater Retail Park. Motorists say they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}