PLANS to overhaul two major routes in Hampshire have received a boost after it was announced that £25m had been secured for the projects.

The Government has rubberstamped the funding to go on upgrading junction 10 of the M27 and building the long-awaited Stubbington bypass.

The funding was revealed by Fareham Borough Council leader Seán Woodward, until recently the county council's transport chief.

He said the Department for Transport had signed off £15m for the £45m M27 project, while his final act as county transport boss was to secure £10million from the authority towards the £35m Stubbington bypass.

He now hopes that the Government will deliver the remaining £25million which will ease traffic in the village.

It is hoped that Welborne developers will contribute the remaining £30m to fund the junction 10 improvements.

Currently traffic can only leave Hampshire’s busiest motorway on the westbound side at junction 10, and join it to head eastbound.

For the bypass a 2.5-mile long road would link Titchfield Road to Gosport Road, and cut across land designated as a strategic gap.

Planning permission was granted by the county council in October.

Cllr Woodward said he had been campaigning for four years to get the cash.

“It will be a massive boost. It’s needed for the businesses in the Daedalus Enterprise Zone and those it’s around it,” he said.

“Traffic in the mornings going away to the motorway is awful and in the evenings coming back.

“The village of Stubbington is lovely but we need to make sure that that’s still accessible for people.

“There’s a sheer number of people who just want to get onto the motorway. It’s a popular little village but people just want to get on with their journeys.

“With this bypass they won’t have to queue to get into the village centre.”

An announcement will be made in the autumn whether the Government will offer the cash.

If successful, work on the project could start next summer and last two years.

Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage was pleased with the cash injection.

She said: “An alternative access route to the Gosport peninsula is the only way to ease the burden on our congested roads and unlock the economic potential of our area.

Fareham MP Suella Fernandes added: “These improvements are badly needed and will be hugely welcomed by people locally if they finally happen.

“I’ve been working closely with the council and lobbying the government to provide funding and I hope we will be successful.”