Electronic signs urging drivers to slow down, new footpaths, road markings and improved surfaces will put in place in dozens of towns and villages through Norfolk County Council's parish partnership scheme.

Places such as Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn, Attleborough, Loddon, Brundall, Wells-next-the-Sea, Snetterton, Long Stratton, Blofield, Cringleford, Frettenham, Outwell, Swanton Morley and Toft Monks will benefit from the project.

Attleborough is one of the places which will get road safety improvements (Image: Mike Page)

First launched in September 2011, the scheme invites communities to bid for cash to help make roads safer, with the county council providing £384,000, matched by town and parish councils to provide the schemes.

The most popular bids were for SAM signs - mobile units which flash the speed of drivers and encourage them to slow down. There were 31 applications for such units.

In previous years, the Safety Camera Partnership has provided half the funding for such projects, but is not doing so this year. However, the county council has agreed to provide £68,000 towards them.

Other popular schemes were:

Village gateways (14) - boundary markers at the entrances to villages, with speed limit signs welcoming drivers (and encouraging them to slow down).

Trods (11) - a low cost alternative to footpaths often made using recycled road surface material.

Wig wags (4) - part-time advisory 20mph speed limit with flashing school warning lights outside schools.

Graham Plant, Norfolk County Council cabinet member for highways, transport and infrastructure (Image: Sonya Duncan)

Graham Plant, Conservative-controlled County Hall's cabinet member for highways, said: "The scheme allows us to work together, directly with parish councils so that we can deliver the improvements that communities tell us they need."

The council's cabinet is due to agree to make the money available when it meets on Monday.

Which towns and villages are due to benefit?

Ashill: Footway £20,700

Ashwellthorpe: Traffic calming £25,000

Aslacton: Village gateways £8,421

Attleborough: Signs £3,067 and speed activated mobile unit £7,816

Aylmerton: Speed activated mobile unit £3,445

Aylsham: Speed activated mobile unit £3,824

Aylsham is one of the places where safety measures will be introduced (Image: Antony Kelly)

Billingford: Signs £1,870

Blofield: Trods £15,849 and £16,835

Brancaster Staithe: Surfacing £3,332

Bressingham: Village gateways £4,548

Brisley: Street furniture £4,237

Brockdish & Thorpe: Speed activated mobile unit £2,882

Brundall: Footway £12,500

Burnham Market: Speed activated mobile unit £9,533

Buxton with Lamas: Surfacing £4,800

Cantley: Village gateways £3,671 and a bench £3,656

Cringleford: David Bills Trod £45,400

Dersingham: Village gateways £9,191

Docking: Speed activated mobile unit £6,844

Earsham: Speed activated mobile unit £3,445

East Tuddenham: Speed activated mobile unit £4,474

Edgefield: Signs £1,236 and speed activated mobile unit £1,454

Field Dalling and Saxlingham: Village gateways £6,500

Foulsham: Village gateways £6,300

Fransham: Trod £5,176

Frettenham: Trod £50,000 and village gateways £3,500

Garvestone: Speed activated mobile unit £4,924

Great Massingham: Signs £1,560

Great Melton: Speed activated mobile unit £4,760

Great Moulton: Speed activated mobile unit £3,928

Great Yarmouth Two footways £8,500 and £2,750

Hempnall: Speed activated mobile unit £3,445

High Kelling: Trod £12,000

Holme Hale: Signs £2,724

Holme-next-the-sea: Speed activated mobile unit £8,408

Horstead: Village gateways £6,740

Ingoldisthorpe: Vehicle activated sign £7,171

Kelling: Speed activated mobile unit £3,445

King's Lynn: Speed activated mobile unit £4,753

Little Snoring: Speed activated mobile unit £4,682

Long Stratton (Image: Newsquest)

Long Stratton: Speed activated mobile unit £3,944

Marshland St James: Trod £20,000

Methwold: 20mph wig wags £3,828

Mulbarton: Feasibility study £10,000

Mundesley: Signs £7,566

Mundford: 20mph wig wags £7,940

Neatishead: Public right of way £1,650

New Buckenham: Signs £7,600 and speed activated mobile unit £2,200

Northrepps: Trod £19,000

Northwold: Feasibility study: £4,000

Outwell: Trod £25,416

Pulham St Mary: Speed activated mobile unit £3,824

Ringstead: Speed activated mobile unit £3,445

Salhouse: Posts £1,287

Scarning: Signs £1,000

Sea Palling: Village gateways £2,400

Sedgeford: Speed activated mobile unit £3,485

Sloley: Village gateways £2,000

Snetterton: Signs £3,000

Southery: Speed activated mobile unit £3,445

Southrepps: Speed activated mobile unit £3,824

South Lopham: Speed activated mobile unit £3,944

Sparham: Signs £5,647

Sporle: Village gateways £14,000

Stoke Ferry: Street furniture £2,375 and road markings £500

Stratton Strawless: Signs £1,300

Strumpshaw: Village gateways £5,700

Swanton Morley: 20mph wig wags £11,587 and road markings £1,449

Swanton Novers: Village gateways £6,000

Swardeston: Public right of way: £14,572

Syderstone: Speed activated mobile unit £4,474

Terrington St John: Wig wags £8,514

Thursford: Speed activated mobile unit £4,474

Toft Monks: Vehicle activated sign £14,342, village gateways £11,500 and road markings £2,500

Tunstead: Speed activated mobile unit £3,808

Upper Sheringham: Speed activated mobile unit £4,134

Upwell: Two sets of surfacing £21,575 and £4,415

Walpole Highway: Public right of way £9,400

Watlington: Trod £45,243

Wells-next-the-Sea: Feasibility study £5,000

Weybourne: Signs £2,270

Winfarthing: Speed activated mobile unit £4,685

Winterton: Trod £19,541

Wymondham: Speed activated mobile unit £3,824

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