A request has been lodged with the government for £1 million to help drive forward plans for a £150m distributor road in Boston.

Lincolnshire County Council and a local MP are lobbying the Department for Transport for funding to further develop plans for the road.

They are working to deliver a complete business case in order to bid for Central Government funding towards the project.

If completed, the Boston Distributor Road would be a new, 8km road around the west of town. It would join the southern A16 to the A52 before crossing the Boston to Sleaford railway line, the wide South Forty Foot Drain and the A1121 via a new bridge. It would then head north, over the River Witham; east, over the railway line to Skegness; and back to the A16 north of town.


Matt Warman, MP for Boston and Skegness, said: "I have met with Ministers at the highest levels of Government to raise awareness of the growth that could be unlocked by central funding towards a distributor road for Boston.

"It is no coincidence that when the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced a new bypass fund this time last year, Boston was specifically singled out as an example of a town seized up by congestion and desperately in need of a bypass.

"Boston is Lincolnshire's fastest growing town, and I am delighted that Lincolnshire County Council are preparing a strategic case summary that will put us in a position to bid for a share of this funding."

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