HC Deb 16 December 1980 vol 996 c120W
Mr. Dudley Smith

asked the Minister of Transport what is the anticipated total land take of the projected M40 motorway in acres and the average loss of land per mile of motorway.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

The preferred route from Waterstock to Warwick announced in January 1978, together with the Warwick section, for which the line was fixed in 1976, would take about 1,250 acres. That is some 22 acres per mile.