Campaign group for Mottram - Tintwistle Bypass

The background story

Following earlier investigations to provide a bypass, the scheme was restored to the road program in 1989 and following a public consultation process a preferred route was selected in October 1993. This route is shown on the map on a following page in red.

After subsequent reviews by the previous government, work was suspended. In July 1998 the present government published the results of its own review in A New Deal for Trunk Roads and included the bypass as a scheme to be progressed through the preparatory stages.