Plans for a new £65m Norfolk road could be lodged this summer, after around 150 people had their say in public consultation over the scheme.
There have long been calls for a new road on the edge of King's Lynn, to link the A10 and A47 and serve some 4,000 homes earmarked for the West Winch area.
Officers at Norfolk County Council started public consultation over the West Winch Access Road in November, ahead of bids for government cash and an application for planning permission for the scheme.
That consultation closed at the end of last week, with about 150 people having their say on the scheme.
The proposed project would connect the A10 to the A47 via a new 1.5-mile road, starting to the south of Gravelhill Lane in West Winch and joining the A47 before it reaches the Hardwick Junction.
Bosses at County Hall said there had been an "encouraging" response to the consultation, which also saw about 150 people attend drop-in events.
Graham Plant, the Conservative-controlled council's cabinet member for highways, transport and infrastructure, said: "The response to the consultation has been encouraging.
"I would like to thank everyone who took part, whether that was attending an event, completing the survey or writing to us with their views.
"The feedback we have received will play an important role as we continue to shape our proposals for the road over the coming months."
County Hall bosses hope the Department for Transport will contribute £50m towards the scheme's cost and will lodge a business case with the government.
The council said that and the planning application will be lodged in the summer or autumn.
Campaigners, including Alexandra Kemp, independent Norfolk county councillor for Clenchwarton and South Lynn, have been pressing for the link road to be built before work begins on thousands of new homes in the area.
She said: "I fully support the considered, reasonable consensus in West Winch and Setchey, that there cannot be any new development accessing the A10, until the bypass to the A47 is fully built out.
"West Winch and Setchey have been very patient for 50 years and will not accept new development of 4,000 homes, without the full proper highways infrastructure first."
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