Legal challenge over road through park

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Sefton Council on Merseyside has applied for a judicial review of Highways England’s decision to build a bypass through a country park  to improve connectivity between the Port of Liverpool and the motorway network. 

Last August Highways England announced that, instead of improving the existing A5036 between the port and Switch Island junction where the road meets the M57 and M58, a new dual carriageway bypass through Rimrose Valley Country Park would be built.

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