Major UK motorway's £40m 'ghost junction' could open - four years after being built

The caller junction was completed successful 2020 but had laid dormant for years (Image: National Highways)

A major UK motorway's infamous £40 cardinal "ghost" junction could yet unfastened aft laying dormant for 4 years.

National Highways spent betwixt £40 cardinal to £50 cardinal to physique the M49 junction betwixt Severn Beach and Chittering adjacent Bristol.

It was completed successful 2020 and would person provided entree to adjacent Severnside concern estates and Amazon, Lidl and Tesco organisation centres.

It is hoped the roadworthy volition besides amended roadworthy information and make greater economical enactment successful the area, BristolLive reports.

However, it was ne'er linked to the section roadworthy web owed to "unforeseen circumstances", a assembly study said.

It was ne'er completed owed to "unforeseen circumstances" (Image: South Gloucestershire Council)

Currently, lorries accessing the concern parkland person to thrust done section villages.

Nine abstracted conditions, which prevented the commencement of operation of the nexus road, person present been discharged. Only 2 conditions remain.

Last twelvemonth plans were yet submitted to nexus the junction with the roadworthy web astatine a adjacent concern park.

South Gloucestershire Council was granted readying support to physique a 160m (525ft) nexus roadworthy to the junction.

A determination by South Gloucestershire Council, dated November 1, said it was blessed to discharge the conditions, which included submitting a enactment schedule.

Processes for landscaping erstwhile creating the nexus roadworthy person been agreed and approved by the council.

The remaining conditions preventing the operation of the nexus roadworthy present subordinate to the rhythm path, which was called 'redundant' successful earlier plans submitted to the council.

The archetypal information says that afloat details of fencing disconnected the impermanent rhythm way and scenery enactment were submitted and the 2nd being a caller impermanent rhythm way to beryllium successful usage anterior to closing the existing route.