WATFORD Mayor Dorothy Thornhill's mother-in-law has blasted the council after it approved controversial plans for a new road between two industrial estates in the town.
Linden Sharpe, 56, said she was "bitterly disappointed" by the council's decision to back the scheme to link Watford Business Park and Wolsey Business Park, which she argues will damage the environment and endanger cyclists.
Applicant Hertfordshire Highways says the £500,000 link road is designed to take heavy lorries away from West Watford's congested residential streets by redirecting them on to wider main roads.
Mrs Sharpe, whose son deputy mayor Iain Sharpe is married to Mayor Thornhill, said she was "dismayed" that the council's development control committee voted for the road on Tuesday evening.
After the meeting, Mrs Sharpe, a district nurse who lives in Silk Mill Road, told The Watford Observer: "They the councillors just rambled on but there was no real debate, I don't even think they had read the application."
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