HC Deb 28 October 1970 vol 805 cc121-2W
Mr. Thomas Cox

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what future action he proposes to take to ensure that people living in areas to be affected by motorway development are to be made fully conversant with any such development that will affect their homes and local amenities.

Mr. Graham Page

I am considering introducing arrangements that will give more extensive publicity to road proposals at the time they are published in draft Orders or Schemes under the Highways Act, with a view to alerting those concerned and giving them a better opportunity to find out what is proposed.

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will discontinue, on routes intended to be developed as motorways, the practice of rebuilding sections of such routes as all-purpose roads thereby increasing both the danger of accidents and the eventual cost of rebuilding as a motorway.

Mr. Michael Heseltine

Each case is considered on its merits with regard both to the standard and timing of improvements. Where practicable, improvements are designed for future incorporation into planned motorway or other comprehensive schemes.