You may assume that Wiltshire Council would try to preserve its Special Landscape Areas.

Here is how Wiltshire (County) Council actually wanted to spoil Westbury's best landscape.

The eastern Westbury Bypass route was little more than a kilometre from the Westbury White Horse.

This area has wide long-distance views.  Westbury Escarpment is clearly visible from Bradford-on-Avon, over 12 kilometres away.  An eastern Westbury bypass would have been seen across much of Wiltshire.

As you can see here, the eastern bypass was to climb and cut the slopes of the Westbury Escarpment.

Much of this Eastern A350 Westbury Bypass route was through a designated Special Landscape Area.

You can see on the over-view, here, how the route was on top of the Wellhead public water source.

Wiltshire (County) Council's eastern route was on the wrong side of the town, in the wrong place.

Wiltshire (County) Council has wasted about £5M of our tax money on its defective project.

There was a planning application in 2005, another in 2007 and a planning inquiry in 2008.

The inspector recommended against planning permission.   The scheme is now dead.

Wiltshire County Council has since renamed itself Wiltshire Council, which may save on printing.