HC Deb 17 January 1968 vol 756 cc558-61W
62. Mr. Biggs-Davison

asked the Minister of Transport what alterations are being made in the roads programme because of financial stringency; and whether the construction of M11 is to be deferred.

Mr. Carmichael:

Public expenditure on major English roads will be reduced by £15 million in 1968–69 and £25 million in 1969–70. It is not possible to specify in advance what alterations to the dates of individual schemes in the road programme will be necessary to keep total expenditure within the new ceilings. There will be a continuing review of starting dates throughout the period so as to take account of the progress of individual schemes and minimise delays to the more important ones.

Mr. Peter Walker

asked the Minister of Transport if she will list the 81 major road projects due to start between August, 1965 and January, 1966 and deferred for six months, giving the dates on which work was originally scheduled to start and be completed, on which each project was started or is now planned to start, and on which each will now be completed or has been completed, indicating in each case the estimated cost at the time of deferment and the current estimate of the cost.

Mr. Carmichael:

The following is the list:

MOTORWAY AND TRUNK ROAD SCHEMES
Estimated Cost
Target Starling Date at Time of Deferment Target Completion Date at Time of Deferment Actual or Revised Target Starting Date Revised Target Completion Date At Time of Deferment Current
£000
Ml Tankersley-Darton … … … … … 12.65 12.67 8.66 8.68 7,320 6,731
Darton-Horbury … … … … … 1.66 1.68 8.66 8.68 7,210 7,268
Lowering of A580 … … … … … 10.65 3,67 3,66 12.67 1,500 1,246
M4 Chiswick-Langley Lighting … … … … 9.65 2.66 8.66 11.67 120 l00
A66 Crackenthorpe Diversion, Westmorland … … 9.65 6.67 5.66 2.68 142 154
A5 Newton Bridge, Brownhills, Staffordshire … 9.65 9.66 8.66 3.68 135 111
A46 Syston to Thrussington, Leicestershire … … 9.65 6.67 6,66 1.68 420 351
A38 Blue Linhay Hill to East Caton Cross, Ashburton.Devon … … … … … … 10.65 5.67 4.66 4.67 275 235
A38 Lee Mill-Westover, Ivy bridge, Devon … … 9.65 9.66 4.66 4.67 169 190
A31 Tricketts Cross to Hampshire County Boundary,Dorset … … … … … … 10.65 10.66 5.66 5.67* 111 150
A34 Newcastle-under-Lyme By-Pass, Southern Section,Staffordshire … … … … … 10.65 5.67 8.66 2.68 380 380
A56 Daresbury Diversion, Cheshire … … … 9.65 1.67 6.66 8.67* 429 355
A63 Widening through Garforth, West Riding … 10.65 1.67 8.66 12.67* 124 128
A12 Woodbridge Road/Heath Road, Ipswich Suffolk … 11.65 11.66 8.66 12.67 100 94
A10 Mitcham's Corner, Cambridgeshire … … 1.66 7.66 8.66 5.67* 104 106
A38 Red Cross Hill-Trehill Lodge Kenn, Devon … 11.65 6.66 7.66 6.67* 368 340
A38 Drumbridge-Chudleigh Knighton Bridge, Devon 11.65 5.67 2.67 10.68 346 472
A6 Cat Row to Oakfield Drive, Bolton, Lancashire … 11.65 11.66 7.66 2.68 103 114
A127 Hall Lane Cross Roads, Essex … … … 11.65 11.66 6.66 3.67* 238 256
A38 Staffordshire Boundary to Mickleover Link, Derbyshire … … … … … … 12.65 12.67 5.66 5.68 1,546 1,478
A6 Blackrod By-pass to Dog Holes Farm Lancashire 12.65 9.66 under review under review 100 102
A64 Malton By-pass (Eastern Section) North Riding … 12.65 12.67 Scheme abandoned.
A38 Cutwell Cross to Carew Arms, Ugborough, Devon 11.65 11.66 11.66 11.67* 134 164
A38 Ashburton By-pass, Devon … … … 11.65 11.66 6.67 5.68 134 220
A6 Dicconson Lane to St. John's Avenue, West-houghton, Lancashire … … … … 1.66 1.67 10.66 6.68 120 125
A1 Long Bennington By-pass, Kesteven, Lincolnshire 12.65 12.67 1.67 9.68 779 906
A6 Stoughton Drive, Leicester City Boundary, Leicestershire … … … … … 8.65 8.66 4.66 12.66* 92 76
A34 Stone Road/Eccleshall Road Roundabout, Stafford 10.65 10.66 8.67 4.69 100 147
A27 Diversion at Crocken Hill, West Sussex … … 10.65 1.67 4.66 4.67* 98 102
A127 Rayleigh Weir Roundabout, Essex … … 11.65 8.66 12.66 9.67* 98 120
A3 Hogslodge to Gravel Hill, Hampshire … … 11.65 6.67 4.68 8.69 99 132
A33 South of Popham, Hampshire … … … 12.65 12.66 8.66 8.67* 99 98
Al Westmains Diversion, Belford, Northumberland … 12.65 12.66 2.68 2.69 77 96
A4 Rosedale Crescent to Reading Boundary, Berkshire 1.66 10.66 10.67 3.69 170 420
(Scheme revised and extended)
A38 Beare Diversion, Devon … … … … 1.66 1.67 9.66 9.67* 99 111
A69 Scarrow Hill Improvement, Cumberland … … 12.65 5.67 11.66 4.68 150 139
A583 Ribby Corner, Lancashire … … … … 11.65 11.66 12.66 1.68 151 186
High Wycombe By-pass Contract II … … 8.65 10.67 6.66 6.68 4,156 3,994
* Date road opened to traffic.

PRINCIPAL ROAD SCHEMES
Estimated Cost
Target Starling Date at Time of Deferment Target Completion Date at Time of Deferment Actual or Revised Target Starting Date Revised Target Completion Date At Time of Deferment Current
£000
Surrey … … Maidstone-Guildford (A25) Bletchingley and Nutfield … … 12.65 4.67 11.67 12.69 109 140
Coventry … … A4114 Binley Road … … 10.65 10.66 3.66 11.66 100 94
Bolton, Lancashire Farnworth and Kearsley By-pass … 10.65 10.67 7.66 5.68 1,958 2,102
Northumberland … A697 Weldon Bridge Diversion … 11.65 11.67 10.66 12.68 308 308
West Riding … Horbury By-pass … … … 9.65 6.67 8.66 2.68 252 268
Loughborough … New Road between A6 Derby Road and A60 … … … … 9.65 7.66 1.66 12.66 93 128
Southend-on-Sea … I.R.R. Northern Section … … 9.65 9.67 2.66 2.68 731 870
Southend-on-Sea … Ring Road, Part Eastern Section … 9.65 9.67 141
Ashford … … A292 Diversion of East Hill … 8.65 6.66 4.66 10.67 111 114
Hertfordshire … Southern Link Road Hatfield New Town … … … … 10.65 7.67 5.66 5.68 312 410
Greater London Council High Street, Feltham … … 12.65 9.66 11.66 3.68 187 205
Hillingdon … Cowley Road, Uxbridge … … 12.65 3.67 1.67 12.68 240 218*
Richmond … Heath Road, Twickenham … 9.65 9.66 8.66 10.67 96 96
Hampshire … Ringwood to Bournemouth Spur 9.65 9.67 10.67 10.69 1,065 1,225
Surrey … … A24 Dorking By-pass to Folly Lane 1.66 12.67 7.66 4.68 409 383
Surrey … … A31 Farnham By-pass Extension … 11.65 5.67 8.66 8.68 360 360
Plymouth … … Crownhill junction … … … 1.66 1.68 5.67 5.69 580 730
Reading … … A33 Bridge St. Bridges … … 12.65 2.68 1.67 8.67 120 131
Birmingham … Coventry Road. Clay Lane-City Boundary … … … 11.65 12.67 4.68 4.70 401 793
(Scheme Revised)
Dudley … … A461 Stourbridge Road … … 1.66 9.66 8.67 11.68 152 184
Warley … … Relief Road-Route-A457 Stage II 1.66 7.66 1.68 11.69 77 72
Wolverhampton … I. R. R. Section III Salop St.Waterloo Road … … … 1.66 1.68 10.66 8.68 970 1,047

Estimated Grant Value
Target Starling Date at Time of Deferment Target Completion Date at Time of Deferment Actual or Revised Target Starting Date Revised Target Completion Date At Time of Deferment Current
£000
Cheshire … … Wilmslow By-pass … … … 11.65 11.67 Scheme superseded 220
Lancashire … Higham Diversion … … … 12.65 12.66 9.66 4.68 77 93
Preston … … I. R. R. Stage I … … … 1.66 1.68 10.66 12.68 764 708*
St Helens … A570 Impt. of Marshalls CrossRailway Bridge … … … 12.65 5.67 5,68 11.69 105 110
West Riding … Cinder OvenBridge … … 1.66 1.67 Scheme superseded 151
Hertfordshire … Watford-Rickmansworth, Cassio Bridges … … … … 11.65 5.67 4.68 10.69 112 195*
Hampshire … Basingstoke Development Worting Rd Diversion … … … 11.65 5.67 11.66 5.68 72 70
Hampshire … Basingstoke Development West Tangential Rd North … … 11.65 5.67 11.66 5.68 422 417
G L C … … Strand Subway … … … 1.66 10.66 Under review 325
G L C … … Streatham Place … … … 1.66 3.67 3.67 11.67 195 151
G L C … … Finchley Road (A41) … … 12.65 6.69 7.66 7.69 2,258 2,651
Newham … … Barking Rd/Green St to Town Hall … … … … 12.65 12.66 4.69 9.70 200 253
London … … Upper Thames Street (Bush Lane-Arthur St.) … … … 1.66 1.67 12.66 12.67 360 287
G L C … … Beckenham Road Railway Bridge 10.65 10.66 3.67 3.68 80 109
G L C … … Holloway Road Railway Bridge … 9.65 5.66 11.68 5.70 120 118*
Hounslow … Gunnersbury Station Railway Bridge … … … … 1 66 7 67 6 67 6 69 130 151*
G L C … … St John's Hill, Battersea … … 12.65 4.66 10.66 10.67 250 146
Buckinghamshire … Black Horse Canal Bridge … 8.65 8.66 8.66 6.67 90 87
Birmingham … Paradise Circus … … … 11.65 11.68 3.67 12.70 2,670 2,845
Brownhills … Walsall-Lichfield Road … … 12.65 12.66 8.68 8.70 225 240*
West Riding … Haigh Cottages-Oulton … … 10.65 11.67 5.68 2.70 375 342
West Riding … Stanningley By-pass … … 9.65 9.67 8.66 8.68 992 1,004
* Grant value being reviewed.