Contact:
Martin Hendry
Adams Hendry Consulting Ltd
7 St Peter Street
Winchester
SO23 8BW

01962 877414
m.hendry@adamshendry.co.uk

The Secretary of State has recently announced her decision to approve applications by Dorset County Council for Side Roads and Compulsory Purchase Orders that will enable the Weymouth Relief Road and a park and ride car park to be constructed. This follows a Public Inquiry that, unusually for a free-standing CPO inquiry, included significant evidence on the need for the proposals and alternatives to them. The proposals had earlier been granted planning permission without a public inquiry.

Adams Hendry are pleased to have been the Planning and EIA advisers to Dorset County Council, as highway authority, since November 2005. When we were appointed, we carried out an audit of previous proposals and suggested significant amendments to reflect both the environmental sensitivities of the location (AONB and SSSI) and the decision-making criteria set out in Government policy and the Statutory Development Plan. These included a re-alignment through the AONB (which encloses the urban area on the landward side) involving the partial removal of the bypassed section of A354 over the Ridgeway.

For more information on this project click here to download a project summary sheet.