LORD KINNAIRDasked His Majesty's Government whether they will state the areas of agricultural land which will be required in Scotland for the eventual construction of the trunk roads to the engineering standards now being adopted by the Ministry of Transport in:
and to give this information on a county basis.
- (a) schemes already approved;
- (b) schemes likely to be approved;
§ LORD SHEPHERDThe area of agricultural land affected by trunk road schemes in Scotland approved to date is 977WA 102.6 acres. These schemes are concerned with about 17 miles of road. It is not possible to forecast the area of agricultural land which will be required for schemes not yet approved.
The following tables show:
TABLE I.—Total mileage of trunk roads in each county and the acreage of agricultural land required for schemes approved to date.
TABLE II.—Total areas of agricultural land in Scotland acquired for trunk road purposes each year from 1946.
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TABLE I County Total Mileage Acreage of agricultural land required for Trunk Road Schemes approved to date Aberdeen 110.1 5.2 Angus 26.6 1.0 Argyll 188.3 — Ayr 112.8 — Banff 38.5 5.0 Berwick 35.0 4.0 Bute — — Caithness 55.2 — Clackmannan 8.5 — Dumfries 127.2 8.1 Dunbarton 44.5 1.8 East Lothian 26.2 1.4 Fife 88.8 — Inverness 228.7 — Kincardine 31.3 2.1 Kirkcudbcenter 49.9 —
County Total Mileage Acreage of agricultural land required for Trunk Road Schemes approved to date Lanark 114.2 37.9 Midlothian 54.2 3.9 Moray and Nairn 42.1 5.5 Orkney — — Peebles 6.7 — Perth and Kinross 183.9 16.3 Renfrew 29.4 .1 Ross and Cromarty 133.2 — Roxburgh 43.8 — Selkirk 15.2 — Stirling 35.2 10.3 Sutherland 42.5 — West Lothian 24.7 — Wigtown 32.8 — Zetland — — 1,929.5 102.6
TABLE II Total areas of agricultural land in Scotland acquisition of which for trunk roads was completed during the periods shown:— Acres 1946 4.3 1947 18.2 1948 5.4 1949 (January to April) 1.8 House adjourned at ten minutes before seven o'clock.