§ 49. Mr. Swinglerasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will state the amount spent on private street works in each of the last five financial years; what proportion of each sum came out of local authority funds; what mileage of private streets was made up and adopted as public highways; and what mileage of private streets and roads remains to be made up and adopted, at the latest date for which figures are available.
§ Mr. CorfieldInformation about expenditure is given below. It is estimated that roughly 1,000 miles of private streets have been made up in the last five years, and that roughly 5,000 miles remain to be made up.98W Expenditure on private street works, 1958–63
Loan sanctions were issued for the following amounts:—
£ million 1958–59 1.8 1959–60 2.3 1960–61 2.2 1961–62 3.2 1962–63 2.1 These amounts represent not more than about half the total expenditure on private street works. The expenditure is incurred in the first instance by local authorities, but the great bulk of it is recovered from frontagers. In 1959 all but about 5 per cent. was so recovered; the proportion in the other years is not known.