Back to list A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project

Representation by Prof Lucien Taylor (Prof Lucien Taylor)

Date submitted
3 September 2022
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

The road in the section between Appleby and Brough, and especially around Flitholme and the Great Musgrave turning, section should ALL be built to the north of the current road. Here, the land to the north is unattractive scrubland and uninhabited, whereas the landscape it is planned to carve up south of the current road is attractive farmland and very inhabited. It's an irony that north of the road is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, but it turns out that the boundary for this was drawn arbitrarily in the mid-C20 and doesn't signify anything: the land is in fact much less beautiful than the farmed landscape to the south (until you get to the actual fells, of course).