The cost of building a new bypass in Cheshire is set to be 10% higher than originally expected, a council has said.
The Middlewich Eastern Bypass was given the go-ahead by the government in July, after local residents campaigned for more than 40 years for the road.
Cheshire East Council said the scheme will now be more costly than expected because of a delay in the Department for Transport funding being signed off.
The 1.6 mile (2.5km) road, which will have bridges over the Trent and Mersey Canal and the nearby railway line, is now expected to cost £107.67m to build.
It will connect a new roundabout junction off Pochin Way in the north to another new roundabout junction to the south, linking with the A533 Booth Lane.
Work on the project is set to begin next year.
Cheshire East Council said in a report it would not increase borrowing to cover the additional costs.
It is instead proposing to relocate cash from its highways and transport programme, request local transport grant funding from the new shadow combined authority being created in Cheshire and sell extra land from along the bypass route.
A total of £48.04m of funding for the bypass is coming from the Department for Transport.
But the council said the announcement of the grant award was delayed from the expected date in February, which had led to cost pressures because the scheme could not start in 2025 as originally planned.
The council’s corporate policy committee is set to sign off plans to accept the rest of the government grant and recommend the increased budget for the bypass to be approved at a meeting on 27 November.
