Motorway traffic heading south through Bath across Cleveland Bridge could soon be sent through Wiltshire instead.

Currently, A-roads take traffic from the M4 heading towards the Dorset coast through Bath and across the Georgian bridge, which has an 18-tonne weight limit in place.

But the Department for Transport is carrying out a study into how to improve the connection between the motorway and the coast.

This could potentially see the route be moved off the A46 and A36 in Bath, with traffic instead sent through Wiltshire on the A350.

Bath MP Wera Hobhouse met Roads Minister Robert Holden on February 22 to persuade him to make the move. She said: "My meeting with the Minister was a useful one. I raised to him once again that the A36/A46 is already wholly unsuitable to be the 'strategic route' currently and adding further traffic to it will only make the situation worse.

"Cleveland Bridge is a Grade II* listed site and it is well known that it is not the right route for a constant flow of 40 tonne HGVs. My constituents' health will also suffer due to the greater amounts of traffic and resulting higher pollution."

A spokesperson for the Department of Transport said; "The study is approaching completion and work considering all corridors continues to be taken forward. We expect the findings of the study to be available in Spring 2023."