HC Deb 13 May 1966 vol 728 cc136-9W
Mr. Charles Morrison

asked the Minister of Transport if she will list the 81 major road projects which were due to start between August, 1965, and January, 1966, and which were deferred for six months, giving the actual date on which work was originally scheduled to start and the date on which each actually started or is now planned to start, and indicating in each case the increase in cost which has resulted from the deferment.

Mr. Swingler

The following is the list. Where an early revised starting-date is not given the additional delay is due

MOTORWAY AND TRUNK ROAD SCHEMES
Target starting date at time of deferment Actual revised target starting date
M1 Tankersley-Darton 12.1965 7.1966
Darton-Horbury 1.1966 7.1966
Lowering of A580 10.1965 3.1966
M4 Chiswick-Langley Lighting 9.1965 8.1966
A66 Crackenthorpe Diversion, Westmorland 9.1965 5.1966
A5 Newton Bridge, Brownhills, Staffordshire 9.1965 5.1966
A46 Syston to Thrussington, Leicestershire 9.1965 5.1966
A38 Blue Linhay Hill to East Caton Cross, Ashburton, Devon 10.1965 4.1966
A38 Lee Mill-Westover, Ivybridge, Devon 9.1965 4.1966
A31 Tricketts Cross to Hampshire County Boundary, Dorset 10.1965 5.1966
A34 Newcastle-under-Lyme By-pass, Southern Section, Staffordshire 10.1965 7.1966
A56 Daresbury Diversion, Cheshire 9.1965 5.1966
A63 Widening through Garforth, West Riding 10.1965 6.1966
A12 Woodbridge Road-Heath Road, Ipswich, Suffolk 11.1965 5.1966
A10 Mitcham's Corner, Cambridgeshire 1.1966 7.1966
A38 Red Cross Hill-Trehill Lodge, Kenn, Devon 11.1965 2.1966
A38 Drumbridge-Chudleigh Knighton Bridge, Devon 11.1965 2.1966
A6 Cat Row to Oakfield Drive, Bolton, Lancashire 11.1965 7.1966
A127 Hall Lane Cross Roads, Essex 11.1965 6.1966
A38 Staffordshire Boundary to Mickleover Link, Derbyshire 12.1965 5.1966
A6 Blackrod By-pass to Dog Holes Farm, Lancashire 12.1965 8.1966
A64 Malton By-pass (Eastern Section) North Riding 12.1965 6.1966
A38 Cutwell Cross to Carew Arms, Ugborough, Devon 11.1965 7.1966
A38 Ashburton By-pass, Devon 11.1965 7.1966
A6 Dicconson Lane to St. John's Avenue, West-houghton, Lancashire 1.1966 7.1966
A1 Long Bennington By-pass, Kesteven, Lincolnshire 12.1965 Late 1966
Early 1967
A6 Stoughton Drive, Leicester City Boundary, Leicestershire 8.1965 5.1966
A34 Stone Road-Scalishall Road Roundabout, Stafford 10.1965 7.1966
A27 Diversion at Crocken Hill, West Sussex 10.1965 4.1966
A127 Rayleigh Weir Roundabout, Essex 11.1965 9.1966
A3 Hogslodge to Gravel Hill, Hampshire 11.1965 8.1966
A33 South of Popham, Hampshire 12.1965 7.1966
A1 Westmains Diversion, Belford, Northumberland 12.1965 9.1966
A4 Rosedale Crescent to Reading Boundary, Berkshire 1.1966 7.1966
A38 Reare Diversion, Devon 1.1966 8.1966
A69 Scarrow Hill Improvement, Cumberland 12.1965 9.1966
A582 Ribby Corner, Lancashire 11.1965 7.1966
High Wycombe By-pass Contract II 8.1965 5.1966
CLASSIFIED ROAD SCHEMES
Surrey Maidstone-Guildford (A25) Bletchingley and Nutfield 12.1965 10.1966
Coventry Binley Road, A4114 10.1965 3.1966
Bolton Farnworth and Kearsley By-pass 10.1965 6.1966
Lancashire
Northumberland Weldon Bridge Diversion A697 11.1965 6.1966
West Riding Horbury By-pass 9.1965 6.1966
Loughborough New Road between A6 Derby Road and A60 9.1965 1.1966

to reasons other than the Government's economic measures.

The estimated costs of some of the deferred schemes have increased and those of a number of others have decreased. To what extent these changes, either way, are attributable to deferment is impossible to say.

CLASSIFIED ROAD SCHEMES
Target starting date at time of deferment Actual revised target starting date
Southend-on-Sea I.R.R. Northern Section 9.1965 2.1966
Southend-on-Sea Ring Road, Part Eastern Section 9.1965 2.1966
Ashford A292 Diversion of East Hill 8.1965 4.1966
Hertfordshire Southern Link Road Hatfield New Town 10.1965 5.1966
Greater London Council High Street, Feltham 12.1965 7.1966
Hillingdon Cowley Road, Uxbridge 12.1965 8.1966
Richmond Heath Road, Twickenham 9.1965 7.1966
Hampshire Ringwood to Bournemouth Spur 9.1965 6.1966
Surrey Dorking By-pass to Folly Lane A24 1.1966 6.1966
Surrey A31 Farnham By-pass Extension 11.1965 7.1966
Plymouth Crownhill junction 1.1966 8.1966
Reading Bridge St. Bridges A33 12.1965 1.1966
Birmingham Coventry Road, Clay Lane-City Boundary 11.1965 Early 1967
Dudley Stourbridge Road (A461) 1.1966 6.1966
Smethwick Relief Road-Route A457 Stage II 1.1966 8.1966
Wolverhampton I.R.R. Section III Salop St.-Waterloo Rd. 1.1966 6.1966
Cheshire Wilmslow By-pass 11.1965 1969–1970
Lancashire Higham Diversion 12.1965 5.1966
Preston I.R.R. Stage I 1.1966 7.1966
St. Helens A570 Impt. of Marshalls Cross Railway Bridge 12.1965 7.1966
West Riding Cinder Oven Bridge 1.1966 Under review
Hertfordshire Watford-Rickmansworth, Cassio Bridges 11.1965 Under review
Hampshire Basingstoke Development Worting Road Diversion 11.1965 9.1966
Hampshire Basingstoke Development West Tangential Road, North 11.1965 9.1966
G.L.C. Strand Subway 1.1966 Under review
G.L.C. Streatham Place 1.1966 10.1966
G.L.C. Finchley Road (A41) 12.1965 5.1966
Newham Barking Road-Green Street to Town Hall 12.1965 1969–1970
London Upper Thames Street (Bush Lane-Arthur Street) 1.1966 6.1966
G.L.C. Beckenham Road Railway Bridge 10.1965 10.1966
G.L.C. Holloway Road Railway Bridge 9.1965 6.1967
Hounslow Gunnersbury Station Railway Bridge 1.1966 9.1966
G.L.C. St. Johns Hill 12.1965 8.1966
Buckinghamshire Black Horse Canal Bridge 8.1965 7.1966
Birmingham Paradise Circus 11.1965 10.1966
Brownhills Walsall-Lichfield Road 12.1965 Late 1966
West Riding Haigh Cottages-Oulton 10.1965 11.1966
West Riding Stanningley By-pass 9.1965 6.1966