Lyminster Bypass works set to resume

Work on the Lyminster Bypass has resumed after being postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Persimmon Homes confirmed that the construction of the road would begin again on Monday for the first time since Friday, March 27, when the project was paused days after the UK was put into lockdown.

A spokesman for the company said ‘at all times the works will respect the Government’s latest Covid-19 advice to keep everyone safe’.

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Plans for the multi-million pound road were approved by West Sussex County Council in 2019.

A photo of the escavated Fitzalan link road in March, when works were postponed. Picture: Persimmon HomesA photo of the escavated Fitzalan link road in March, when works were postponed. Picture: Persimmon Homes
A photo of the escavated Fitzalan link road in March, when works were postponed. Picture: Persimmon Homes

Works began in the New Year, and were due to be completed by February next year before the coronavirus outbreak took hold.

The two sections of road will run from Fitzalan Road, by Littlehampton Academy, through to a new roundabout in Persimmon Homes’ Hampton Park development in Littlehampton, including a bridge over Toddington Lane and the railway line.

At the beginning of construction, a spokesperson from Persimmon Homes said it was an ‘exciting development for Littlehampton, which will bring enormous benefits to local people’ by ‘reducing traffic and congestion’ around the town.