cattery

While taking traffic over the A12, the junction also has a turn leading to a kennels and cattery, as well as farmland.

Alistair McColm, who runs the kennels and cattery, previously told the BBC his staff often received abuse from motorists over delays caused by the roadworks.

"Today the vet said these animals could not stay inside because of the risk of transmitting diseases. But the school across the street has given us the gymnasium so we can build a kennel and a cattery."

There are also three private houses and a cattery within the grounds of the site, which is set back from the road up a long driveway.

Gill Davies, who runs the Brook Park Farm Cattery on the site and lives in one of the houses next door, said if the plan went ahead "life would change completely".