29/10/2026
CONSERVATIVE COUNCILLORS CALL FOR £500,000 REFUND AFTER GOVERNMENT SCRAPS MELKSHAM BYPASS
Conservative councillors have asked for a refund after plans for the Melksham bypass were scrapped by the government.
Cllr Phil Alford for Wiltshire Council requested that councillors vote on an amendment which would request £500,000 of Wiltshire taxpayers' money be refunded by the government following the decision by Labour ministers to scrap the scheme.
Cllr Alford said "that's a lot of money that we spent being only for it all to be thrown away at government's whim."
https://www.melkshamanddevizesconservatives.org.uk/news/conservative-councillors-call-ps500000-refund-after-government-scraps-melksham-bypass