Plans for a new £84m bypass near a Norfolk town have been lodged - and people will soon get to have their say on the scheme.
Proposals for the West Winch Access Road, near King's Lynn, have been submitted to Norfolk County Council.
County councillors last month gave officers the green light to push ahead with plans for the road, which would link the A10 and A47.
And the application for the road, which would serve 4,000 homes due to be built in the West Winch area, has now been submitted to County Hall's planning department.
The application has yet to be validated, but once that process is complete, the public and other organisations will be able to submit their views about the scheme ahead of the council's planning committee deciding whether or not it should be approved.
The road would connect the two major A roads, via a new 1.5-mile road, which would start to the south of Gravelhill Lane in West Winch and would join the A47 before it reaches the Hardwick junction.
Changes will need to be made to the Hardwick interchange to take into account the housing traffic and the rerouted A10.
There have long been calls for the access road to be built before the thousands of new homes are constructed, to stop roads being further clogged up by extra traffic.
When the Conservative-controlled cabinet agreed to give officers the go-ahead to lodge the plans, county council leader Kay Mason Billig said: “This will help to hit housing targets.
”But it will also bring relief to the A10, which suffers from massive congestion.
”And it is good that this road will be built before most of that housing has started.”
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Norfolk County Council is hoping the government will confirm it will contribute almost £67m of the cost for the road.
Developers would contribute £14.7m towards the road's cost, while the rest would come from the county council, the borough council and business rates.
If permission is granted and funding secured, it is hoped work will start in spring or summer 2025, with the road opening two years later.
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