ERR: Northern entrance to the Persimmon Homes site on the B3162 Forton Road in Chard. Pic: Daniel Mumby. ALL of Chard’s new relief road will be delivered – but not necessarily in the right order. It may sound like a line from a Morecambe and Wise sketch, but the decision could have serious implications for the town in the years ahead. South Somerset District Council identified the need for an eastern relief road (ERR) in Chard in its Local Plan, in order to take pressure off the town centre. Six years after the plan was formally adopted in March 2015, not a single metre of the new road has been delivered – and the first possible section that could be built may end up being the section that was intended to be built last.
ERR: Northern entrance to the Persimmon Homes site on the B3162 Forton Road in Chard. Pic: Daniel Mumby. ALL of Chard’s new relief road will be delivered – but not necessarily in the right order. It may sound like a line from a Morecambe and Wise sketch, but the decision could have serious implications for the town in the years ahead. South Somerset District Council identified the need for an eastern relief road (ERR) in Chard in its Local Plan, in order to take pressure off the town centre. Six years after the plan was formally adopted in March 2015, not a single metre of the new road has been delivered – and the first possible section that could be built may end up being the section that was intended to be built last.
Decision due on relief road for Somerset town
The road is designed to take pressure off the town centre
17:39, 6 MAY 2021
Northern entrance to the Persimmon Homes site on the B3162 Forton Road in Chard (Image: Daniel Mumby)
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All of Chard s new relief road will be delivered - but not necessarily in the right order.