the department for transport published "trunk roads, england, into the 1990s" in may 1990 which included ten proposed developments for the a12 between the m25 and lowestoft including the m12 motorway between m25 and the chelmsford bypass, chelmsford bypass widening and improvements on the sections from hatfield peverel to marks tey, four sisters to stratford st. mary, martlesham to wickham market, wickham market to saxmundham, the bypass around saxmundham, saxmundham to south of wrentham, south of wrentham to kessingland and the lowestoft relief road.