§ Mr. Tom McMillanasked the Secretary of State for Transport by what criteria he judges the land use effects of highway proposals to be relevant matters for the system of appraisal recommended by the Leitch report.
§ Mr. Horam:We take particularly careful account of those effects to which the local planning authorities draw attention. The Leitch committee recognised that, in the present state of knowledge, the assessment of land use implications must be largely subjective, and primarily for those authorities.