{"id":688137,"date":"2026-07-12T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688137\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:06:09","slug":"new-m5-tewkesbury-junction-could-be-sacrificed-to-fund-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688137\/","title":{"rendered":"New M5 Tewkesbury junction could be ‘sacrificed’ to fund defence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Council chiefs fear a planned new motorway junction could be “sacrificed” in the government’s proposal to reallocate funds to defence.<\/p>\n

Gloucestershire County Council wants to build a new M5 junction to the south of Tewkesbury to help solve long-standing issues and unlock plans for 25,000 homes.<\/p>\n

However on 29 June Prime Minister Keir Starmer said a \u00a315bn rise in military spending would come from cutting investment budgets in other areas – including \u00a3700m in savings from roads projects.<\/p>\n

County councillor Julian Tooke, who leads on infrastructure on the council, said: “We are very concerned that Gloucestershire’s need for improvements to junction 9 of the M5 and the A46 may get sacrificed.”<\/p>\n

The Department for Transport (DfT) said it will not comment on funding prospects for junction 9 at this stage, the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> (LDRS) said.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the works were estimated to cost up to \u00a3930m, and funding was approved to develop a \u00a313m business case for the project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council chiefs fear a planned new motorway junction could be “sacrificed” in the government’s proposal to reallocate funds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-688137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}