DfT throws Norfolk – and Shropshire – a lifeline05/03/2025 The Department for Transport has said it will not ask Norfolk County Council to return £33m funding towards its shelved £274m link road. |
Council 'keeps digging' over £39m scheme sunk costs28/02/2025 Shropshire Council’s planned Shrewsbury North West Relief Road is now projected to cost £215m, leaving a funding gap of £176m and potential sunk costs of £39m. |
Council 'keeps digging' over £39m scheme sunk costs20/02/2025 Shropshire Council’s planned Shrewsbury North West Relief Road is now projected to cost £215m, leaving a funding gap of £176m and potential sunk costs of £39m, posing ‘very significant financial implications’ if abandoned. |
Relief road struggles to find credible funding source14/02/2025 Shropshire Council has admitted that its controversial Shrewsbury North West Relief Road has a funding gap of over £100m – a deficit for which it currently has no credible funding source. |
Council gains stakeholder support for road scheme using 'confidential data'24/01/2025 Shropshire Council has declined to disclose the modelling it is using to gain support among public sector leaders for a controversial relief road scheme. |
'Carbon bomb' warning adds to relief road woes23/12/2024 Shropshire Council has sought to shrug off a new estimate of the carbon impact of its controversial relief road scheme by increasing the budget and timescale for its pledge to offset the scheme’s emissions. |
Auditors warn over relief road bankruptcy risk02/12/2024 Shropshire Council has postponed the long-awaited full business case (FBC) for its controversial relief road scheme - as some suggest the deliverability risks threaten the authority with de facto bankruptcy. |
£200m NWRR project under DfT microscope10/10/2024 The controversial Shrewsbury North West Relief Road (NWRR) is under threat from the Government’s low value project review, despite a claim from Shropshire Council that it remained within the normal approval process for Large Local Major schemes. |
Shropshire mix up adds confusion to bypass controversy16/07/2024 Shropshire Council's controversial £170m bypass has run into more trouble after the regional water company mistakenly announced a road closure for advance works despite continuing funding doubts. |
Lib Dems opposition calls for freeze on beleaguered Shropshire scheme09/07/2024 Shropshire Council faces new calls to freeze spending on its controversial £170m Shrewsbury North West Relief Road (NWRR) project as it ‘resizes’ to stave off financial collapse. |
Auditors warned over relief road 'iceberg'15/04/2024 A councillor has asked Shropshire Council’s external auditor to investigate concerns the North West Relief Road (NWRR) in Shrewsbury will 'completely bankrupt the council'. |
Shropshire tenders relief road build at £110m15/03/2024 Shropshire Council has admitted it has had no official communication from the Government to support its expectation that a controversial new road will be ‘fully funded’, as it tendered its construction with a price estimate of £110m. |
Shropshire throws cash at NWRR as costs soar29/02/2024 Shropshire Council has agreed a further £17m capital funding for its Shrewsbury North West Relief Road (NWRR) as the controversial scheme faces a new threat of legal action. |
‘Show Us The Money’: Campaigners demand funding answers06/02/2024 Shropshire Council has declined to give an updated cost for its North West Relief Road (NWRR) scheme, which campaigners say could cost more than £200m. |
Shropshire beats partial retreat over 'misrepresentation' claims22/01/2024 Shropshire Council’s cabinet member for highways has conceded that the Environment Agency did not state that the risk to Shrewsbury’s water supply from a new road would be ‘minimal’, as he had claimed. |
DfT backtracks on 'full funding' hopes for Shropshire scheme15/01/2024 The Department for Transport (DfT) has backtracked on a pledge from the transport secretary to fully fund a road scheme in Shropshire as the costs soar. |
Environment Agency says council misreported its views on £80m road05/01/2024 Shropshire Council has denied that a planning committee was misled over the Environment Agency’s (EA) attitude to a controversial new road, which the EA believes could present a significant risk to the area’s water supply. |
Campaigners undaunted as Gove refuses call-in01/12/2023 Campaigners have vowed to fight after levelling up secretary Michael Gove rejected calls for a public inquiry into the North West Relief Road in Shrewsbury. |
Alarm over relief road 'threat to water supply'13/11/2023 Campaigners have asked the Government's communities secretary to hold a public inquiry into plans for a £80m relief road in Shropshire. |
Shropshire launches LCRIG framework with first contract07/07/2023 Shropshire Council has become the first local authority in the country to use a new procurement system designed to encourage innovation in highways maintenance. |
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