Leading Sefton councillors have disputed claims made by the Department for Transport in a letter to the Save Rimrose Valley campaign group.
The group has been fighting plans for a new road that would see the south Sefton park demolished to make way for a dual carriageway. In the letter, the DfT claims that its Port of Liverpool Access road is partially being driven by local housing developments.
Sefton councillors have responded by refuting the claims and demanding the Department for Transport public retract their statement. In a letter to the DfT Deputy Leader Cllr John Fairclough and Cabinet Member for Planning, Cllr Daren Veidman wrote: "We would wish to reaffirm in the strongest terms that to suggest that anything other than the Port and its expansion is the main driver of congestion and therefore the suggested need for a new road through the Rimrose Valley is untrue.”
