A major project to make improvements to travel around Lynn has been thrown into disarray after the council were told they had to clean up contaminated land. The multi-million-pound Active and Clean transport project, which hopes to create new cycle lanes, walkways and ‘travel hubs’ – a car park with additional facilities – around Lynn has become unaffordable. It follows the Environment Agency changing their guidance on phosphogypsum, a radioactive material used in road surfacing known to cause cancer. The EA has told West Norfolk Council it will need to remove this contaminant from an area of …
