Call to flesh out bypass proposals

A CALL has been made fora council to set out how a bypass for a gridlocked town could be developed.

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Chepstow grinds to a halt with traffic snaking through the town and crossing the border with England, along the A48, as well as vehicles heading over the first Severn Bridge on the M48.

Calls for a relief road, on the English bank of the River Wye south of Sedbury, were given new impetus after Forest of Dean MP Matt Bishop said he would be willing to look at proposals for what's been called a Forest Gateway Road that would connect with Chepstow at the Bulwark and via a new crossing south of the existing A48 bridge over the Wye.