Road improvements for Cheshire

THE Highways Agency has agreed to finance two major road improvements in Cheshire.

It will improve the junction of the A55 and the A483 at Chester and junction 11 of the M56 at Daresbury.

Last week improvements to junction 17 of the M6 at Sandbach were confirmed. The Cheshire works should cost around £16m and be completed by March 2015.

Christine Gaskell, chair of the cheshire and warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) said: “Continued investment into our road networks is vital to the future prosperity of Cheshire and Warrington. The area already benefits from good motorway links and this extremely positive news ensures those links will be even better.

“Cheshire and Warrington has the potential to increase the size of its economy by £10bn to £30bn a year by 2030 based on greater productivity, together with 100,000 more people living in the sub-region, to a total population of 1 million by 2030.

“The road improvements will cut congestion, and improve transport links and development opportunities helping our region to grow our economy even further.”