Road schemes cancelled after Sloman Review now being revived

Two years on from the Welsh Government’s Review of Road Schemes, Rhodri Clark asks if the policy is now being further revised? He looks at some of the schemes apparently reappearing in a different guise and considers what the new approach to roads in Wales now is.

Local authorities are reviving some of the road schemes which were cancelled in 2023 following the independent Sloman Review. Lee Waters, the transport minister who accepted the review’s findings, told LTT last week that the government would now need to ensure that any revived schemes were consistent with the new tests for road building, for example through redesigning.

Ken Skates, who now has the transport brief, said the government was assessing the post-Sloman road building tests in...

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