A NOTORIOUS traffic hot-spot is to be redeveloped after a council was handed a £1.25m government grant.
Chapel Lane will be widened and the A40/Plomer Hill traffic signals - which Buckinghamshire County Council pumped £13,000 into in 2011 - will be redeveloped in a bid to remove the Wycombe bottleneck.
As part of the work, which is expected to be completed by summer 2014, 323 West Wycombe Road - owned by BCC - will be demolished.
John Lamb, Place Service Director for BCC said: "This junction has been a congestion hot spot for a long time.
“The award of this funding is excellent news and means Transport for Buckinghamshire can now deliver a project that can unblock this traffic bottleneck.”
BCC received the money from the Department for Transport’s Local Pinch Point Fund for its A40/A4010 Bucks Connectivity project.
The authority will have to make a 30 percent contribution to the project, which will cost £1.8m overall.
BCC says its £572,000 contribution includes the value of 323 West Wycombe Road, demolition costs and fees for bidding for the cash.
The rest will be made up with £300,000 of approved capital funding.
For more information visit www.transportforbucks.net/Roadworks-Centre/Schemes-and-projects/Our-schemes-and-projects/Bucks-Connectivity.aspx
