A number of traffic-calming schemes around the county won't go forward in West Northants Council's 20-year transport plan
Several major traffic mitigation schemes across West Northamptonshire have been deferred or scrapped completely, as the council has laid out its priority projects in its Local Transport Plan (LTP).
The plan, which went out to public consultation as a draft last summer, will serve as a baseline for priority highways and transport improvements for the next 20 years. On Monday (January 13), West Northants Council (WNC) discussed a list of projects that will not be carried forward within the LTP.
The report highlighted a number of issues raised across multiple consultation responses and clarified the future of those schemes in the plan. These include:
Deferring junction upgrades at the Great Billing Interchange and the A45 Wootton Interchange
Throwing out requests for a Farthinghoe and Cold Ashby bypass
Deferring the Northampton Northern Orbital scheme
Documents explained that the junction upgrades had been deferred after National Highways suggested that WNC review the Northampton Growth Management Strategy (NGMS), which was first published in 2019, before committing to the A45 junction works.
Cllr Andre Gonzalez De Savage raised concerns about delaying the Wootton Interchange improvements due to large residential developments in the area and their impact on the "key junction".
Cllr Phil Larratt, cabinet member for highways, told members that there is "not enough money in the pot" to carry out all the upgrades due to inflation. He added that the NGMS needed to be revisited as there were commitments that were no longer necessary, such as upgrades at the Brackmills Interchange.
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