§ Mr. Simon Mahonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment when the remaining stretch of the Liverpool and Southport road between Litherland and the north side of Ince Woods will be undertaken and completed; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Graham PageLancashire County Council and Bootle County Borough Council, the highway authorities concerned, have a scheme in preparation to construct a new route between the A567 and the A565 south of Ince Woods. The northernmost mile of that road would form part of the proposed Stage 2 of the Liverpool Outer Ring Road. There are statutory procedures to be followed and I cannot forecast a starting date.
My Department is giving preliminary consideration to the dualling of the trunk road A565 on its present alignment from its junction with the proposed new route north-v estwards to Ince Blundell. We have no proposals for a bypass of the trunk road to the north-east of Ince Woods.