Sefton: Rimrose Valley bypass plans scrapped in budget
Sefton: Rimrose Valley bypass plans scrapped in budget
The controversial proposal was set to see a bypass built through a Merseyside park.
A £250m bypass planned to go through a Merseyside country park has been scrapped in the budget.
The proposal for a dual carriageway through Rimrose Valley Country Park in south Sefton was first announced in 2017 to improve access to the Port of Liverpool.
In budget documents released today, the Transport Secretary said the A5036 Princess Way scheme would not progress as it was “unfunded and unaffordable”.
Bootle’s Labour MP Peter Dowd, whose constituency includes the port, said: "Rimrose Valley is a green lung for my constituents and the last thing we wanted was a road to be built through it."
He added: "We now have to ensure that the work to develop a long term, environmentally sustainable alternative continues."
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Peel Port hammered in the post-Panamax port extension Liverpool 2 with no plan on how to deal with the extra traffic generated, they just punter the problem over to Highways England. Their solution was to bang a road through a park hoping that it being a former tip would make people not care so much. As the area has some of the worst health outcomes in the UK it was a pretty disastrous scheme. Good to see it knocked on the head and now Peel will have to clean their own mess up.