 Traffic will be diverted away from Sittingbourne town centre |
A Kent town will get a long awaited link road after Transport Secretary Alistair Darling announced �29m will be invested by the government. It is hoped the Sittingbourne Northern Distributor route will bring traffic relief and regeneration to the town.
The road will provide a link between Kemsley and Eurolink Business Park and is one of only three schemes in the country to be given funding.
Work will begin next year and should take around two years to complete.
Create more jobs
The Sittingbourne relief road will take traffic off at the A249 and bring it round into the northern part of the town, avoiding the town centre.
Councillor Alex King unveiled the plans and described them as "a genuinely important scheme to regenerate Sittingbourne".
He said: "It would give local people a better opportunity to be employed locally and would encourage businesses to come and invest and create more jobs."
Swale is the furthest borough east to be included in the Thames Gateway and is expected to see huge growth in the next 10 years.
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