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Proposed North West Orbital Road and Its effect on Lower Broadheath 2006.

Lower Broadheath Parish Council has just informed the villagers with a newsletter and attached map.

There are outline proposals for a new road to the North West of Worcester; this will link the Roundabout to the west of St. Johns at Dines Green to the Claines junction at the Northern Link. This will complete the Worcester ring road.
Two routes are to be considered one will take a line closer to Worcester and another will be closer to Lower Broadheath and cutting through Hallow.
Both proposals entail constructing a new bridge, the inner route crossing near Hallow Park and outer crossing near Bevere.
This Orbital route will enable expansion of Worcester beyond its current boundaries and could possibly provide up to 10,000 new homes with Schools, Medical facilities and shops.
As far as Lower Broadheath is concerned the outer route would be the most intrusive and would definitely threaten village identity; Lower Broadheath would become just another suburb of Worcester.
The huge building development would cause disruption on a massive scale and would decimate the rural aspect. Our village community would be destroyed and could possibly be overwhelmed with undesirable elements.
The considerable amount of traffic that passes through Lower Broadheath at the moment is intrusive, making an urgent need for this road but full account must be taken of the residents views that would be affected by the outer route.
Residents in the Crown East and Lower Broadheath Common area would be likely to benefit, with less traffic passing their houses but homes in The Knoll, Lovington, Hallow and Peachley area would see a reduction in their quality of life as the outer route would pass close to this area. Residents living in this area would see a massive increase in traffic from the outer route, and the price of houses will plummet.
New houses would be built as near to the village as Lovington Lane. This would put pressure on our local community to become part of Worcester.
These proposals are not expected to materialise until 2011 at the earliest and probably will not happen until 2026.