Think Again A46 Winthorpe Residents' Group

24/07/2024

A46 Think Again Statement - July 24, 2024

Think Again neither support nor oppose the National Highways plans; our objective is to work collaboratively with all agencies to achieve the best outcomes for our community.

Our political neutral residents group was set up in 2020 with one agenda item, to safeguard Winthorpe village and associated parkland, and to offer the residents of the Village a voice, this goal remains the same in 2024.

The two options proposed for the A46 Bypass in December 2020 by National Highways were both negatively impactful on Winthorpe Village, with one of the options eliminating residential property and creating eight lanes of traffic adjacent to the village. Both options would have a dramatic visual impact on historic parkland, increase noise and pollution, and compromise wildlife habitats.

In early 2020, Think Again proposed an option that moved the bypass as far away from Winthorpe as possible, whilst maintaining engineering integrity. From a design standpoint The Think Again team are delighted that so much of our ideas and recommendations have been adopted by National Highways, however,
we continue to have concerns surrounding outstanding multiple reports from National Highways and are waiting for National Highways final reports to be submitted to enable Think Again to comment.

08/01/2024

From 15 January 2024, a team of National Highways surveyors will be out in the fields around Winthorpe, concluding surveys for the A46 Newark Bypass scheme at this location.

The team will be digging and investigating six trenches over two weeks.

The survey team will be accessing the fields directly from the A1133, which means there won't be any impact within the village itself.

Please be aware that this specialist activity is being carried out by trained professionals. The team will be equipped to conduct these surveys safely and efficiently. For your own safety, National Highways kindly request that residents and the public refrain from accessing the survey sites.

27/11/2022

The slides from Think Again's village presentation have now been uploaded to our website: https://a46thinkagain.org.uk/index.php/useful-documents/ - see Think Again November update - near the bottom

18/11/2022

Think Again is running two events about the bypass next Wednesday (23rd November) at Winthorpe Community Centre. The sessions are identical and will run at 1.30pm and 7pm. We will present latest developments and will have plenty of time for discussion

18/11/2022

National Highways has now released visuals of the scheme from ground level. These are an artist's impression and depict the landscape 15 years after the scheme's completion. An image depicting the road between Winthorpe and Winthorpe Road Estate has not been included:

12/11/2022

Reminder: National Highways has their consultation event in Winthorpe today. 12 until 5pm at the Community Centre

29/10/2022

Think Again's chair talks to East Midlands Today about why the A46 bypass consultation is inadequate

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28/10/2022

Here is a link to National Highways' video fly through of the proposed new bypass:

We're consulting on the A46 Newark Bypass scheme, the fly-through video provides a visualisation of our latest design for the scheme. The consultation will b...

27/10/2022

National Highways have delivered brochures to the The Lord Nelson pub for those people who don’t want to use the internet to access the information relating to the proposed A46 Newark Bypass.

25/10/2022

Remember that the statutory consultation for the A46 bypass starts tomorrow. Expect all the information to be uploaded to the National Highways website:

The A46 Newark Bypass is an important route connecting the M1 and Leicester to the A1 and central Lincolnshire.

05/10/2022

Residents,

We have received emails from residents that confirm National Highways made a mistake, the letters recieved in recent weeks are NOT A SCAM, we have requested an official statement from National Highways to publish.


If you have any doubt on the legitimacy of information or requests being distributed by National Highways or Newark and Sherwood District Council, please contact them on

National Highways on
[email protected] or 0300 123 5000

Newark and Sherwood District Council on [email protected] or 01636 650 000.

23/08/2022

Reminder: National Highways is in Winthorpe on Thursday between 4pm and 7pm in the Lord Nelson carpark. There has been significant movement on their design and from initial assessments, Option 3 has been adopted more fully. This is really good news. There is still lots to digest and consider but if you can, please take a look at the new plans. For those who cannot make it – the new designs will be on the National Highways website in a couple of weeks.