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Wiltshire County Council's Eastern Westbury Bypass & the Westbury International Rail Freight Terminal |
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Below is Wiltshire County Council's route for its Westbury Bypass scheme, also with the future Westbury International Rail Freight Terminal marked by WCC and partners Parkman on the same map. A similar illustration of the position of the rail freight terminal was recently shown at a public exhibition.
Viewing quality here is rather mediocre. But worse is the outdated background of this WCC/Parkman map.
The building development which has occurred in Westbury, which is all
on the western
side of the town, is hardly shown.
WCC has marginalised the West Wilts Trading Estate and the industrial areas on the west side of this map
and left out any indication of the fast-expanding new western industrial estates, such as Northacre Park.
The significant new housing area of Leigh Park, again on the western side of the town, is also not shown.
WCC's bypass route is based on obsolete mapping, which now has minimal value and is really misleading.
However, you can see how WCC's eastern bypass would make no connection with Westbury Railway Station
and the proposed International Rail Freight Terminal (which would be situated beside the railway station).
Large railway sidings already exist at Westbury Station. They just need a decent HGV road to them.
Wiltshire County Council has actually ignored the big Westbury railway hub (where the London to Plymouth and the
Cardiff to Southampton main lines intersect) in all of its comparative cost/benefit ratio calculations for the
alternative Westbury Bypass routes.
These are obviously not sound ways of making financial justifications.
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But a route 'preferred' by some of the County Council and those for rural land development. |
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