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Published:
November 27, 2007
Burnham-On-Sea
MP steps up pressure for completion of Foley Parkway
 Burnham's
MP Heathcoat-Amory has this week piled pressure on Somerset County
Council to complete construction of the town's Frank Foley Parkway.
The
unfinished road, pictured here, should run between Burnham’s
Love Lane and Highbridge’s Pepperall Road, but the stretch
marked in yellow has never been completed.
The
MP has stepped up his efforts together with Burnham and Highbridge
Town Council to get the County Council to complete the road.
"My
patience over the delay in completion of this stretch of road
is now exhausted," said Mr Heathcoat-Amory this week.
"When
I have raised this with the County Council in the past I found
a complete lack of determination or interest and I now want answers."
 "Anyone
looking at the road map of the area with this incomplete section
would conclude that it had been planned by lunatics."
"Money
has been collected from developers which has not been spent on
the road and meanwhile traffic congestion continues to increase
on the main road linking Burnham and Highbridge."
"I
am therefore writing again to the County Council in parallel with
a letter from the Burnham and Highbridge Town Council which is
also pressing for a solution to this long-running problem."
The
MP
visited the site and walked the route of the unfinished road
last year to see the problem at ground level.
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