1,300 SIGN PETITION FOR RETHINK ON NEW BRIDGE REFUSAL

MORE than 1,300 people have signed a petition calling on Denbighshire County Council to reconsider their decision to scrap plans for a new Llanerch Bridge.

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At a cabinet meeting in May, Denbighshire councillors voted to abandon plans to replace Llanerch Bridge on the advice of council officers.

The bridge was destroyed during Storm Christoph in 2021 when the River Clwyd burst its banks.

Council officers said drilling into the riverbed could contaminate a water supply to 85,000 homes and that if the council persisted with the bridge, the authority could be liable for millions of pounds in legal costs.

The missing bridge means Trefnant and Tremeirchion residents face seven-mile diversions on back roads and country lanes.

Now a petition has been set up to try and convince the council to reconsider.

The petition follows local councillors campaigning for a temporary structure at the former Llanerch Bridge site, but that has also been dismissed by council officers as risky.

Sue Holyroyd started the petition together with fellow Tremeirchion resident Deborah Albrow. “We've got over 1,300 signatures. We only started this a week last Sunday,” she said.