Project Status - Completed
- Start Date: September 2018
- End Date: January 2019
- Local Growth Fund allocation: £30,000
- Awarded to: Dorset Council (formerly Dorset County Council)
- Part of the BIG Programme
Outputs:
Dorset County Council was awarded £30,000 to deliver a feasibility study to develop design and cost estimate for the Western Link Road which will be constructed to ease congestion and unlock housing at Parley Cross.
Outcomes:
The delivery of the Western Link Road aims to deliver the following outcomes:
- Alleviate traffic congestion and increase capacity along the B3073 corridor and specifically in the vicinity of the Parley Cross junction
- Increase sustainable transport journeys through the junctions, along the new link roads and along the B3073 corridor by providing improved cycling and walking facilities
- Improve access to the airport and Aviation Business Park and the delivery of 500+ dwellings around Parley Cross.
BIG Programme Outcomes:
- Transform accessibility to and around Bournemouth Airport and Wessex Fields through extensive transport improvements.
- Release up to 40 hectares of prime, flexible employment land for high-quality new business premises at Aviation Business Park and Wessex Fields.
- Provide the single largest employment opportunity in the south-east Dorset conurbation with the potential to create around 4,000 new highly skilled jobs over the next decade.
- Generate up to £100 million of GVA into the area.
- Deliver around 700 new homes.
