Scotch Corner: More fast food restaurants and another petrol station planned for busy motorway junction

A plan to build more fast food restaurants and another petrol station beside a motorway junction believed to be among the North’s most congested has been recommended for approval.

While calls are mounting for a moratorium on a string of development proposals at the A1 and A66 Scotch Corner junction, North Yorkshire councillors will hear highways bosses are confident the interchange has sufficient capacity to accommodate the development.

While planning officers have underlined all development applications must be considered on their own merits, councillors have argued the authority and roads bosses are ignoring the cumulative impact of piecemeal developments on a road network already regularly unable to cope with traffic volumes. Objecting to the scheme numerous residents have warned the “busy roundabout will become gridlocked if it is not enhanced”.

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