A document on the way forward for the Shrewsbury North West Reduction Highway (NWRR) will likely be offered to a gathering of Shropshire Council’s complete council the next day (26th February 2026). The document will suggest to council the cancellation of the NWRR because of it being unaffordable.
Prices for the deliberate 6.4 km single-carriageway bypass for Shrewsbury were put at between £162m and £215m, with £32m already sunk into the scheme. The associated fee estimate in 2019 was once best £71m.
The council’s consulting engineer WSP, has been paid £24.4m for paintings that it has carried out at the scheme to this point, whilst Balfour Beatty was once paid £5.1m for managing web site investigation and piling works and Keir were given £2.9m for overseeing later stages.
Paintings at the proposed aid highway has been paused since June 2025, after the Division for Shipping mentioned that no additional govt investment can be made to be had for the scheme.
The council mentioned that NWRR refers best to the part-funded Division for Shipping (DfT) phase of the street from Holyhead Highway to Battlefield. The western phase (A5 Churncote to Holyhead Highway, often referred to as the Oxon Hyperlink Highway phase) is recently matter to a separate review of choices.
Marketing campaign crew Higher Shrewsbury Shipping (BeST) welcomed the approaching cancellation of the Shrewsbury NWRR however is constant its marketing campaign towards the Oxon Hyperlink Highway (OLR) phase of the scheme.
BeST spokesperson Mike Streetly mentioned: “The scoop that the NWRR has been formally cancelled is a victory for all the ones other folks throughout Shropshire who tirelessly campaigned in contrast environmentally and financially disastrous highway scheme. BeST has been caution since 2019 that the street was once now not best environmentally damaging however can be too dear to construct and after seven years of campaigning, we’ve been proved right kind. The former Conservative administrations refused to hear sense, leading to over £32m being wasted, cash that Shropshire Council now has to pay off to central govt within the type of a expensive mortgage. In the meantime, seven years were wasted after we may have been extra successfully addressing delivery problems within the the city thru different measures. Former Tory councillors will have to grasp their heads in disgrace. Alternatively, this announcement has a sting in its tail. The council’s ill-judged resolution to proceed taking a look into the Oxon Hyperlink Highway dangers repeating the similar errors in every single place once more. Haven’t we discovered anything else?”
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