<- Some Wiltshire Councillors still want an A350 Westbury Bypass - and block western routes.

Wiltshire Council's would-be highway through the heart of the countryside.

Planning Inspector rules against WC's potty project, which was turned down.

When Wiltshire Council's ugly secret gantries on embankments were exposed.

Conservatives at County Hall perpetuate plans for car-dependent development.

Wiltshire Council's eastern bypass project was scrutinised in a Planning Inquiry, which recommended refusal of planning permission.    The scheme's rejection was endorsed by the Government.   The dud eastern road project is now dead.

Conservative Wiltshire Council failed in its push for a pre-emptive rush inquiry.

Strange weight restriction:  Who still wants to make HGVs go the extra mile...?

A reasonable way forward would be to properly consider worthwhile solutions.

Wiltshire's western route is of less cost and more use than the eastern scheme. The western scheme included a bypass of the long A350 tailbacks at Yarnbrook.

If road-to-rail freight interchange at the Westbury railway hub was developed, for obvious environmental advantage, HGV congestion would be cut anyway.

Westbury main-line railway station desperately needs a decent access road.

This website reflects the genuine local opinion about a solution at Westbury.
In the last survey ever arranged by Wiltshire (County) Council, up to 79% of Westbury area residents with a view were opposed to the eastern route.    As few as 21% were in favour of the so-called 'preferred' eastern bypass scheme. Read our summarised factual analysis of the Westbury Bypass Opinion Survey. Overwhelmingly, 75% of the local public response wanted a western solution.

Who would have honestly wanted an A350 HGV highway to be built here?

This is a view of where the unpopular eastern road was actually routed.

The planning application was 2400 obscure pages.  But one crass council.

The eastern development project was inept gambling, now a complete waste.

Most of the responses to the 2005 'consultation' were objections to the scheme.

Most of the responses to the 2007 'consultation' were objections to the scheme.

Unproved environmental mitigation ideas, which were pieced together to go with WC's opportunist planning applications, turned out to be counterproductive folly.

It is worth pointing out that little has been done to re-direct long distance lorries to/from the M4 by other than the A350 - as approved BBSCS recommendations.

Wiltshire's HGV map still portrays the unsuitable A350 as a strategic lorry route, which directs HGVs through towns & villages, against reality and agreed policy.

Worse A350 congestion at nearby Yarnbrook & West Ashton was being ignored.

Route flows show how the eastern Westbury bypass plan would have imposed yet more HGVs on to other communities which already suffer twice as many.

Why not follow a sustainable solution of an integrated western access road alongside the railway, routed directly to the station and industrial area...?

Ludicrously, rail freight integration is a Council policy!    See 'Freightway'
(and observe the contradiction between Wiltshire freight policy and what the Council does).

'Novel road plans to put nature first'  - an amazingly incredible claim.

An all wrong road scheme, which had a ridiculous way to go.

Into the Wellhead Valley, charged Wiltshire Council.