Individual objection letters outnumbered equivalent support, inclusive of that in Westbury, by about 10:1.

Wiltshire County Council's ploy had been another planning application for the same unpopular eastern route.

Though there is still no funding for WCC's scheme, public scrutiny and comment were limited to three weeks.

The County Council issued its planning application for consultation when there were road works in Westbury.

And people were repeatedly told by WCC that only its eastern Westbury bypass scheme is being considered.

But, again, there has been significantly more objection to the eastern Westbury bypass plan than support.

And the preponderant majority of the planning application support representations are just cut-out forms, which basically say that Westbury and the surrounding area is in need of traffic relief.

There is actually no mention of eastern bypass in what the majority of its so-called supporters signed.

The leaflet distributed with these forms wrongly claimed that a western route involves twice the distance. The truth is that WCC's far western route is actually only a third longer than the eastern bypass scheme. This extra length is the part which was to bypass Yarnbrook, as well as Westbury.

There are only about 50 individual/original letters of specific support for the eastern bypass scheme.

There are up to 600 individual/original letters of specific objection to the eastern bypass scheme.

All sides publicised their views and offered form submissions.  Wiltshire County Council has done it.

But, of those who wrote their own letters about Westbury Bypass, over ten times as many are objectors.

Compared to putting a name & address to a form, any individual letter is also worth about ten times more.

The preponderant majority of these objections to the eastern A350 bypass are from Westbury and Wiltshire. There are a gross of about 830 Wiltshire-based objectors, of which about 520 have Westbury addresses.

As any upgrade etc of the A350 at Westbury has implications elsewhere, there are also wider objections. This is a factor, among many, which brought about the Planning Inquiry (as the Government letter explains).

Amongst the mass of objections, there was one e-mail from an English teacher presently working in Korea.  The rural road lobby falsely portrayed it as if it was typical.  All other objections are from within the UK.

Here is more about misrepresenting of objectors to the eastern bypass - when most are Wiltshire residents.

The leader of the Westbury Bypass Now group has even stated that signatures against the eastern bypass were obtained from China.   This whopper sits oddly in a letter in a newspaper in which he rants about lies.

Wiltshire County Council's new planning application for the same route allowed people like this to organise.

There are many more real objections to the eastern bypass from Westbury people than equivalent support.

There were about 960 'supporters', most of whom had put their names to the forms calling for traffic relief, and about 1140 objectors, most of whom have written individual/original letters, many of high quality.

Here is an edited transcript of a genuine letter from a lady on the existing A350 traffic route in Westbury.

There are many rather like this Westbury objection letter.  It is representative of most of the real letters.

There were many letters too from local communities, other than Westbury, which would be disadvantaged by the increased HGV flow past their homes that would follow from the eastern Westbury bypass scheme.

There are also a number of objection letters from communities in Dorset etc which would be disadvantaged by increased traffic flow on the A350 that would be caused by the A350 Westbury eastern bypass scheme.

Many repeat the same arguments, but plenty of the objection letters give their own thought-out reasons.

All responses have now been sent to the Planning Inspector, who will be able to draw a clear comparison between the names on forms and the genuine individual real letters, between the minimal individual support and the reality of the overwhelming individual objections to the eastern Westbury bypass scheme.