To justify disregarding original objections, Wiltshire County Council replaced its 2005 planning application with another, in March 2007, for exactly the same eastern route.

We were told that this was due to additional details for mitigation for wildlife habitat.

But WCC's proposed eastern Westbury bypass is fundamentally a road in the wrong area.

Here is a link to Wiltshire CC's big pile of documents: 2007 Westbury Bypass Planning Application.

This is a physically mega amount of information, which would take months to download and read through, which is why Wiltshire County Council allowed us only three weeks to take it all in and to comment.

Consequently, I suggest that, as I have done, you read the summary, the second file down from the top.

It is biased, of course, but you will observe that the new application seems to be about changes of detail.

Or at least this is what I had thought, from the summary, until I discovered the drawings of the gantries.

They are big and ugly.  But only mentioned in the text and not illustrated in the non-technical summary.

The gantries are not shown on the general sections.  They are only on hard-to-find detail drawings.

This is very wrong, of course.  Those who objected to the route would object to the gantries.

WCC has acted improperly by not drawing attention to this change for the worse.

WCC is not acting properly by disregarding previous fundamental objections.