Northern Relief Road

Consultation on the Bapchild section of the Northern Relief Road to take place on Friday 12th February between 4pm to 8pm and Saturday 13th February between 10am to 4pm at Hempstead House in the the Heritage Suite.

Those eagle eyed residents amongst you may have already seen from the consultation documentation on Stones Farm that Swale Borough Council’s and Bapchild Parish Council’s preferred route for the Northern Relief Road has already been ruled out on cost grounds ahead of the actual consultation for the road due to be held in February.

The final section of the Northern Relief Road will now not go to public consultation until next year and most likely not until after the general election.

Well it didn’t take long for Swale Borough Council to backtrack on their refusal to allow the Meads estate.

The traffic modelling carried out for development of the NRR around Sittingbourne had suggested that it would attract a significant amount of extra traffic according to Swale Borough Council’s principle engineer.

THE FIVE parishes' opposition group of Bapchild, Bredgar, Milstead, Rodmersham and Tunstall welcomes the news that funding has now been secured for the completion of the Sittingbourne Northern Relief Road...

AN ARMY of householders is being formed to oppose the £40 million Northern Relief Road. Last week's news that the long-awaited route north of Sittingbourne would become a reality..

ONE of the last pieces of the jigsaw in Sittingbourne's complicated road network is about to be put in place. The long-awaited Northern Relief Road is on its way — but at a price. Its cost has spiralled to more than £40 million.

THE NORTHERN Relief Road has been seen as lynch-pin of Swale's commercial future. It is also one of the biggest road-building plans in Kent. Ultimately, the route will link the A249 at Grovehurst with the A2 east of Bapchild.