§ Miss Vickersasked the Minister of Transport if he will make a statement about the classified road programme for 1964–65.
§ Mr. MarplesYes. The schemes costing over £100,000 each in the 1964–65 programme outside London and the 17W other conurbations are listed below. This is a further instalment in the rolling programme which I announced last year.
Highway Authority Scheme Grant £ LONDON (OUTSIDE L.C.C.) AND THE HOME COUNTIES Middlesex C.C. A.404 Harrow Road Diversion, Willesden 975,000 Middlesex C.C. Potential Class I Courtney Avenue Extension, Harrow 187,500 Middlesex C.C. A.244 Sunbury By-Pass 187,500 Kent C.C. A.206 Northend Road, Crayford 124,000 Herts. C.C. A.411 Watford Relief Road 225,000 Herts. C.C. A.1000 East Barnet By-Pass 360,000 Essex C.C. A.1009 Hatch Lane 112,500 Essex C.C. Potential Class I Romford Ring Road, Part II, London Road-North Street 111,000 Surrey C.C. A.205 Upper Richmond Road, Barnes 97,500 THE SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST Kent C.C. A.21 Tonbridge By-Pass 2,160,000 Southampton C.B.C. Potential Class I Dorset Street Link 150,000 THE SOUTH-WEST Bristol C.B.C. A.4 Victoria Street, Roundabout 525,000 Bath C.B.C. A.367 Old Bridge 187,500 Bristol C.B.C. A.370 Ashton Gate 262,500 Gloucester C.C. —
Bromley Heath Diversion 120,000 WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE Glamorgan C.C. B.4286 Bridge over River Avon, Port Talbot 120,000 Monmouth C.C. A.467 New Road, Pant Bridge, Newbridge-Crumlin 93,500 Newport C.B.C. Potential Class I Wharf Road 318,830 WEST MIDLANDS (EXCLUDING THE CONURBATION) Warwickshire C.C. A.444 Bedworth By-Pass 225,000 Worcestershire C.C. A.435 Birmingham to Wythall 192,000 THE NORTH-WEST (EXCLUDING THE SOUTH-EAST LANCASHIRE CONURBATION) Preston C.B.C. A.583 Watery Lane Extension (transferred from 1963/1964 programme) 457,500 Blackburn C.B.C. Potential Class I Mincing Lane and North Gate Widening 300,000 Lancs. C.C. Potential Class I Haslingden Link Road 101,250 THE NORTH-EAST (EXCLUDING THE WEST RIDING AND TYNESIDE CONURBATIONS) Doncaster C.B.C. A.60 and A.630 Balby Road and Warmsworth Road 276,000 Middlesbrough C.B.C. A.171 North Ormsby L.C. Bridge 388,100 THE NORTH AND EAST MIDLANDS Derbyshire C.C. A.617 Chesterfield Boundary to M.1 513,750 Lincoln C.B.C. Potential Class I Brayford Head Bridge 206,250 Notts. C.C. — Nuthall By-Pass, Western Section 82,500 EAST ANGLIA Norwich C.B.C. Potential Class I Inner Ring Road (Part) 501,750 Norfolk C.C. Potential Class I Kings Lynn By-Pass 262,500