£10m Welsh road scheme given green light

A £10m road building programme in Carmarthenshire, Wales, has been given the green light today (Thursday).

The long-awaited final section of the Llanelli coastal link road, and a new carriageway running directly to Burry Port harbour, have been given Objective One funds.

Work is expected to start in the next few months on a new £5.4m link running from Morfa Cross to Berwick Park on the Swansea side of town.

Carmarthenshire Council, in working with the Welsh Development Agency, was told an Objective One grant of nearly £2m had been secured this week.

The rest of the money will come from land for the expansion of Trostre Retail Park, some of which has already been sold.

A further £1.8m in European money has been secured for the Bury Port Southern Distributor Road.