Plans to build a new road linking the A338 with the Wessex Fields Business Park and Bournemouth Hospital can now begin.
Councillors approved the road works at a board meeting in January.
The project was referred to Local Government Secretary, James Brokenshire, by Bournemouth MP Tobias Ellwood.
He suggested the council’s position as applicant, landowner and decision-maker had led to “inevitable and unavoidable bias”.
“Our plans to build a new link road and junction connecting the A338 with the Wessex Fields Business Park and the Hospital are already supported by central government funding and will provide a much needed second access to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, unlock a major economic development site, as well as ease congestion in the future.”
Environmental campaigners pushed for the proposal to be scrapped as the road will run through green belt land and Holdenhurst village which holds conservation protection.
They said it would “affect the heritage of the local area”.
Bournemouth Borough Council welcomed the decision to approve the project, suggesting it will create 2,000 jobs and safeguard an existing 10,000 jobs in the area.
“Our plans to build a new link road and junction connecting the A338 with the Wessex Fields Business Park and the Hospital are already supported by central government funding and will provide a much needed second access to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, unlock a major economic development site, as well as ease congestion in the future.”
