HC Deb 14 March 1957 vol 566 cc218-20W
Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation to issue a list of schemes under the road programme costing over £100,000, which were started in the six months ended 31st December, 1956, with estimated completion date and total cost of each.

Mr. Watkinson

The schemes are:

—— Estimated completion date Estimated total cost
TUNNEL £
Dartford/Purfleet Tunnel, Kent-Essex 1962 11,129,000
LONDON AND APPROACHES
Elephant and Castle, Improvement, Part I (Demolition works) December, 1959 535,000
Notting Hill Gate, Widening, etc. March, 1960 1,853,000
A1/A.41, Mill Hill to Page Street, Middlesex, second carriageway December, 1957 265,000
A.10, Great Cambridge Road, Bury Street-Carterhatch Lane, second carriageway March, 1958 204,000
A.40, Western Avenue, Middlesex, dualling, Alperton Lane-Greenford Railway Bridge December, 1957 279,000
URBAN SCHEMES
Billingham, Co. Durham, Saltworks Bridge diversion December, 1958 151,000
Plymouth, Eastern Approach Road, Gasking Street-St. Andrew's roundabout December, 1958 258,000
Christchurch, Hampshire, By-pass February, 1959 452,000
Portsmouth, new road (Cosham) connecting London Road (A.3) and Southampton Road February, 1958 237,000
Sheffield, Inner Ring Road, Section I November, 1958 191,000
TRUNK ROAD SCHEMES
A.1, Alconbury Hill to Woolpack Crossroads, Hunts., second carriageway December, 1957 416,000
A.1, Doncaster Mill Bridge, Reconstruction Spring, 1959 475,000
A.1, Sinderby, North Riding, bridge and approaches Spring, 1958 203,000
A.52, Borrowash, Derbyshire, By-pass March, 1958 263,000
A.59, Longton, Lancs., By-pass September, 1957 491,000
A.556, Northwich, Cheshire, By-pass, Western section October, 1959 276,000

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