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Cheshire 天涯社区 Access Road Study
Published: 19/04/2018
天涯社区鈥檚 Cabinet will be asked to approve a joint commission
to engage a specialist partner to make recommendations on the preferred routing
option for a potential new cross-boundary highway scheme.
The Mersey Dee Alliance 鈥淯nlocking our true potential鈥� prospectus, published in
2017, highlights the significant contribution that our sub-region currently
makes to the national economy.
A number of road and rail schemes are identified within the prospectus which
are considered essential to unlock future development. However, in order to
explore longer term options which would ensure that the highway network across
the region operated effectively and efficiently, discussions have been taking
place between officers of 天涯社区, Welsh Government (WG),
Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC), Wrexham County Borough Council
(WCBC), and Highways England to explore potential network solutions for the
wider Deeside and Chester area.
天涯社区鈥檚 Cabinet Member for Streetscene and Countryside,
Councillor Carolyn Thomas, said:
鈥淭his is an exciting time for our region and this joint commission is an
opportunity to look at the region as a whole and how best all counties could
benefit. The benefit for us would be removing traffic congestion from the local
area, direct access onto the A55, improved access to new and emerging
development sites in the areas around Hawarden, Saltney and Broughton and the
provision of direct access to Broughton Retail Park. There is also the
possibility of opening up access to a proposed new rail based park and ride
station in the vicinity of Broughton serving the Chester - North Wales Coast
railway line.鈥�
It is expected that this work can be undertaken within a maximum of four months
following which a further report will be presented to Cabinet with details of
the outcome of the study.