A pensioner living next to a new major road project will access his home through a 'private' TUNNEL - that could cost up to £6M.
Brian Garlick has been forced out of his home alongside the A417 Missing Link - a three-mile-long dual carrigeway under construction between Gloucester and Cirencester.
But he says National Highways has withdrawn an offer of £750k to buy the property so he will be stuck with it after the project is completed in 2027.
And he said he was shocked at hearing the safest way to access his home when the road eventually opens would be through a specially built tunnel - costing between £4m and £6M.
Without its construction, Brian won't be able to go anywhere.
He explained that the tunnel is planned to be a quarter of a mile away from his house - but the details of its dimensions are yet to be decided.
Brian, 69, who is currently living alone in a caravan park during the building phase must currently give 21 days notice to access the home he was born in.
Brian Garlick has been forced out of his home alongside the A417 Missing Link - a three-mile-long dual carrigeway under construction between Gloucester and Cirencester.
But he says National Highways has withdrawn an offer of £750k to buy the property so he will be stuck with it after the project is completed in 2027.
And he said he was shocked at hearing the safest way to access his home when the road eventually opens would be through a specially built tunnel - costing between £4m and £6M.
Without its construction, Brian won't be able to go anywhere.
He explained that the tunnel is planned to be a quarter of a mile away from his house - but the details of its dimensions are yet to be decided.
Brian, 69, who is currently living alone in a caravan park during the building phase must currently give 21 days notice to access the home he was born in.
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00:00Brian Garlick on Crickley Hill. I was originally supposed to be being bought out by National
00:12Highways and they decided that they'd make me an offer to buy the property and get us
00:18out and of course they went and backed out of it. They then said they'd do offers again
00:24and they started again to get it sorted. Then it got to June and they decided to back out
00:31once again and said they wouldn't pay us out at all. So now they're going to build this
00:36up to £6 million for a tunnel to get access in and out. There are a couple of phone bars
00:42here which they've got to allow access to as well. We will have this big tunnel, it's
00:51got to be big enough to get anything of articulated lorry size really. It will link us up to a
00:58new lane on the other side of the road up to the air balloon roundabout. It's got to
01:04be a bit of a strange thing to have one house only with a £6 million tunnel. I think it
01:10will definitely make an improvement but overall I would have preferred to have been away from
01:16all of it anyway. But being National Highways decided they'd back out without even an apology,
01:22we've got to make the most of what we're going to get.