A PROBE is under way to find out why legal searches for homeowners living on the outskirts of Amesbury failed to reveal the existence of a controversial link road.

Residents living in and around Pilot's View and Beamont Way on one of the new housing estates at Boscombe Down, have voiced their concern that they had no knowledge of plans to build a new road through their estates, linking the A345 and the A303.

Jeanette Kay told the Journal she was concerned that searches carried out by solicitors prior to her buying her home in Pilot's View made no mention of the link road.

Mrs Kay moved into her new home in August last year and said she feared she was about to get a bypass running by her house.

Amesbury town councillor John Noeken said several other residents had written to him saying they were not aware of the proposed road.

Mr Noeken said he was concerned that so many searches by different solicitors appeared to have failed to identify the new road, which had been in the public domain since 1989. Mr Noeken said: "I have asked Salisbury district council officers to make enquiries into this issue because this road should have been picked up in the legal searches prior to people buying their homes."