HC Deb 20 October 1952 vol 505 cc51-2W
80. Mr. Ellis Smith

asked the Minister of Transport if he will make a statement on the engineer's survey carried out in preparation for the construction of a modern system of motoring roads throughout the country with particular reference to the London-Glasgow motor road, the Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent road and the urgent road needs of Lancashire.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The following is the position over the country as a whole.

Under the Third Schedule of the Special Roads Act, 1949, the following Orders under the Trunk Road Act, 1946, defining the line of new trunk roads, are to be treated as schemes under the Special Roads Act:—

  • Stevenage By-pass, Hertfordshire.
  • Approaches to the projected Severn Bridge in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire.
  • Newport By-pass, Monmouthshire.

A scheme has been made under the Special Roads Act, 1949, defining the line of the Bristol-Birmingham motor road between Tewkesbury and Lydiate Ash near Birmingham.

Preliminary surveys are completed or in hand for the purpose of making schemes under the Special Roads Act, 1949, as follows:—

  • A further section of the Bristol-Birmingham road between Lydiate Ash and Quinton.
  • A length of the South Wales motor road in Wiltshire.
  • The Ross Spur from the Bristol-Birmingham motor road to Ross-on-Wye.
  • Lancashire-Yorkshire motor road from near Salford to near Leeds.
  • London-Yorkshire motor road from near St. Albans to near Leeds.
  • Birmingham-Lancashire road from north of Walsall to near Stafford.
  • The North/South road through Lancashire from near Warrington to north of Lancaster.
  • A new road through the Lune Valley from Lancaster to Shap in Westmorland.
  • Only part of the route from London to Glasgow is proposed to be made a motor road, and the length between Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent has not yet been surveyed up to the scheme stage.