Cornwall presses on with costly £147m road scheme

Peter Stonham
11 April 2024
 

Cornwall Council is to go ahead with plans to build the A39 Camelford Bypass despite the cost tripling over original estimates to £147M resulting in a benefit cost ratio of only 0.74 putting the scheme in the “poor” value for money criteria.

The council is having to submit an addendum to its outline business case (OBC) for the Bypass to the Department for Transport (DfT) to reflect that the expected cost of the new road has tripled. The OBC for the scheme was originally...

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