The call comes after Norfolk County Council reclassified the risk rating for the 3.9m road to the highest possible level, amid uncertainty over its future.

The fate of the £274m scheme, intended to connect the Norwich Northern Distributor Road to the A47, is hanging in the balance because of environmental concerns including those related to rare, protected, bats.

A visualisation of the Norwich Western Link road (Image: Norfolk County Council)

Government advisor Natural England objected to plans because of the impact on protected barbastelle bats and has signalled it is unlikely to award the environmental licence that would be needed to move or disrupt the........

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