Work on compulsory purchase orders and side road orders is under way now. Letters will first be sent out asking homeowners in the path of the proposed bypass to sell up and move out.
The county council has already spent £1.25m buying homes and land in the area. It wants to claim the rest of the land and property to allow building work to start by late 2008.
If homeowners refuse to move out their protest could trigger a long public inquiry into the scheme.
But Coun Tony Martin, the county's cabinet member for sustainable development, believes such protests are unlikely, saying every complaint he has ever had about the bypass has been urging him to start work on it.
He said once work begins they plan to push developers - and it could be ready in just 12 months.
He added: "What people have said to me is 'give the bypass to us now'. "What I have been doing is holding everyone back trying to get the money off the developer.
"It will be up and running at the end of this year and we will be pushing as hard as we can."
Thousands of cars use the congested stretch of the A6 at Broughton every day.
Until recently, temporary traffic lights at Brock linked to the soon to open Barton Grange development, made made the A6 traffic situation worse.
And there are fears the road could hit meltdown when The Duke of Lancaster Park comes to Myerscough, as looks likely following Wyre Council's approval for the Royal Lancs Show on Duchy land at Myerscough/Barton.
Already homeowners Denis Ibison, 73, and his wife Elizabeth, 70, who live on Whittingham Lane, Broughton, have said they will stay put when the order to move out arrives.
But Coun Martin said even if they and others refuse to move out, the Secretary of State may not automatically order a public inquiry.
"It is the Secretary of State who will decide whether there is going to be a public inquiry," he added.
"If there are only a couple of homes who are not moving then there is not likely to be one, but if there are a couple of hundred of them then it is likely, but the only pressure I have had on the Broughton bypass is people saying get on with it."
Developer Taylor Wimpey has planning permission on the Whittingham Hospital site for 584 homes, and will be giving a contribution of £1.8m towards the bypass.
However, it is believed the developer will eventually contribute £10.2 million towards the completion of the new road, because planning permission for the homes says they cannot all be built without the completion of the bypass.
Environment and transport cabinet member at the county council Matthew Tomlinson said: "Now that the CPOs have been signed off we are keen to progress as quickly as possible.
"I think there will always be some opposition whenever there is a big scheme like this and we have to deal with that as sensitively as possible, but bearing in mind what we think is the best thing for the vast majority of people who will use that road."
Coun Martin's positive outlook is not shared by camapigners opposed to the bypass, who claim that it will destroy a north Preston community.
Broughton Bypass Review Group has criticised the councillor's claims that no-one is opposed to the £11m road.
Member Chris Couper, of Lightfoot Lane, Fulwood, branded that "rubbish".
He said: "The impact it will have on the school, the church, the school children and the landscape will be massive.
"It actually takes off part of the school playing fields and because it is such a monster there is going to have to be a four metre mound and a two metre fence to screen it.
"The main issue is you are going to have 245 children within metres of this road which has four lanes."
Concerns have previously been raised by the group about children having to effectively cross motorway sliproads.
It has been planned that 'pedestrian phases' will replace subways at the site which are currently used by pupils from Broughton Primary School and Broughton Enterprise and Business College.
As well as the potential effects on St John the Baptist Church, Broughton, and the primary school, Mr Couper claims the Broughton bypass will not solve the floods of traffic likely to affect the area over the coming years.
The new garden centre at Brock opens soon, the Royal Lancs Show is due at Myerscough this summer, and within the next few years the Duke of Lancaster Park is also likely at Brock.
Those projects will add thousands of vehicles to the already clogged A6 at Broughton.
Mr Couper said: "Why do they think the Broughton bypass will be the be all and end all with all this other development?"
"There always has been opposition and we have not gone away.
"We had 2,000 people in opposition to the original plan and I bet I could find 2,000 people now."
Other critics of the county's stance, and the bypass itself say the answer is a new motorway junction at Brock.
Preston Council leader Ken Hudson backs that idea but the Highways Agency say only a compelling case for a new junction would be needed for it to become government policy.
Questions have also been raised at Bilsborrow Parish Council about the solidity of the geology of the area for a junction on/off the M6 at Brock.
The next few months will clearly be among the liveliest in the bypass debate - and in the view of some, the battle is far from over.