Blyth's much anticipated relief road will not be completed until at least 2026 - but councillors have insisted they remain committed to the scheme.
Campaigners and residents have been calling for the scheme for decades in order to ease congestion for traffic going in and out of the town. Northumberland County Council's Conservative administration have repeatedly stated they are committed to the £40m project, with funding set aside in the recent budget.
However, at Monday's meeting of the council's Corporate Services and Economic Growth Overview and Scrutiny Committee, members were told that the preferred route selected three years ago was no longer an option. In 2019, residents were consulted on five potential routes for the relief road, with option three proving the most popular.
