A NEW road being built to take traffic to Wellington’s planned £20 million railway station is expected to be completed before the autumn of this year.

Town councillors were told the access road, work on which started in March, should be ready by September.

The carriageway is being constructed by Bristol civil engineering firm CJL Construction Ltd for Bloor Homes.

Bloor won planning permission to build 178 homes on 43 acres of land to the side of and behind the town’s Lidl supermarket and in return agreed to fund the station road from proceeds of the new housing estate.

Town council chief executive Dave Farrow told councillors Bloor expected to have show homes on the estate ready by October, with the first of the new houses built by the end of the year or early in 2027.

Mr Farrow said discussions were ongoing with Bloor over the development of a ‘station square’ on the estate - which will actually be triangular in shape - and the rebuilding of Wellington Monument’s pyramidion, its pointed top, which was given to the council when the National Trust restored the monument.

The pyramidion will form a centrepiece of the ‘square’, which Bloor is gifting to the town council as part of the planning consent.

Mr Farrow said the ‘station square’ was linked to the completion of the access road, and there would also be discussions around the council managing other open spaces on the new estate.

Network Rail is designing the new station and is expected to submit a full planning application in anticipation of work starting next year and the first trains arriving in Wellington in late 2028.

However, the Government, which scrapped the station’s finances in 2024 and then last year announced it would provide funding after all, has yet to confirm if it will fully-fund the station.