DEVON County Council will be issuing supplementary compulsory purchase orders and side road orders, it was revealed at a pre-inquiry meeting into the proposed £130 million Kingskerswell bypass.

At the meeting at Newton Abbot racecourse on Wednesday, Andrew Tait, for the county and Torbay councils, said the CPOs and SROs would be issued next week and the results would be known in September.

They referred to land by Kerswell Downs and Sainsbury's, Newton Abbot.

A suggestion was made that the public inquiry – which begins at the Passage House Inn, Kingsteignton, on Tuesday, July 7, and is expected to last three weeks – could be taken in two parts.

The inspector, Jack Moffett, said he had another inquiry already booked in October and thought he might be the inspector who would be looking at the supplementaries.

He explained that he could not take action as the supplementary CPOs and SROs had not yet been issued.

John Hartley, chairman of the Teignbridge and Torbay Group of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, said he felt sorry for the inspector to be landed in this position.

'I cannot believe how this has happened, and now there will be even more cost to the council tax payers,' he said.

Mr Hartley was also annoyed at another revelation that the county council had not yet issued a revised traffic model for the bypass – the Department for Transport had not accepted the original.

The council had brought copies of the revised model to the meeting, but Mr Hartley pointed out that the closing date for submissions was June 15, giving just 12 days.

He said he had been trying to contact those at the CPRE national office, but suspected they were on holiday, because he wanted to give them the CD to carry out an analysis of the traffic data.

Strongly objecting, he said: 'To issue the revised traffic model data only days from the submission date is not right.

'The county council gave no reason why it had not issued the CD before, even though the CD case was marked May 2009.

'The way the council is acting is a disgrace to the taxpayers.'

The county and Torbay councils are calling 11 witnesses, and there are numerous objectors including the Kingskerswell Alliance, as well as supporters, who will speak at the inquiry.