A PROPOSED relief road will pass around a nature reserve – not through it, as stated in Friday’s edition of The Northern Echo.
Durham County Council included its proposed route for a northern relief road around Durham city in the latest version of the County Durham Plan.
If built, the road would pass alongside the Low Newton Nature Reserve.
The road is aimed at reducing congestion and improving links between the north-west of the county and the A1, but has prompted the creation of a Save Low Newton group, which is worried about the impact it will have on the nature reserve.
The proposed route would connect the A691 to the north of Lanchester Road Hospital with the A690 east of Belmont, skirting around the edge of the nature reserve and passing through Kepier Wood and Frankland Wood.
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