After four years of delays a new £19m congestion busting link road is set to open ‘in the Spring’

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A long-delayed £19m road designed to ease traffic in a notoriously congested town is set to open in the spring. The 1km Rivington Chase link road in Horwich will further connect the town to the huge Middlebrook retail park and Bolton Wanderers’ Toughsheet Stadium.

It will also provide a spine route for the developing area of new housing and commercial property being built on the huge former Horwich Loco Works site.

The masterplan for the site will see around 1,700 homes built in phases and there is around four hectares of employment land planned in the south east corner of Rivington Chase to create new job opportunities.

It is also hoped the new road which will divert heavy traffic from Chorley New Road and the Beehive roundabout, often congested areas which have caused delays and frustration for motorists in the area for years.