Read all about the folly here on our A350 Westbury Bypass independent information website.

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.

Yet a western route alongside the railway tracks, to the station, road-rail freight terminal and trading estates, is shorter than the failed eastern bypass scheme. It would be of significantly less cost.   It would not be expensively contending with environmental difficulties.    It would be a solution for the 21st century.

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

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

Wiltshire Council's unsound eastern project was called in for 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.

Government letters ordered a full public inquiry into the W(C)C eastern route, which, as said in the GOSW letter, was in potential conflict with many policies.

Wiltshire (County) Council failed in its attempt at a pre-emptive rush inquiry.

Wiltshire Council's myopic out-dated A350 road-building plan was not in any transport priorities proposed in the Regional Strategy or by the Government.

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

WC's Western route is of lower cost and more useful than the eastern scheme. The extra length was for a bypass of the longest 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.

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.

Here are some simulated panoramas of the defunct rural highway project.

A road through our finest areas would have spoiled walking and horse-riding.

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

This was at a time when rational solutions for West Wiltshire are really required.

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.

Far worse tail-backs than in Westbury, at nearby Yarnbrook, were being ignored.

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.

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.

Nature as it is was seen on our 2007 walk along the eastern route.

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Celebrate saying goodbye to a failed eastern era.

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

Into the Wellhead Valley, charged Wiltshire Council.