§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 3 June,Official Report, column 55, whether he has had any further communications with the European Commission about the proposed M11 link road; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he has any plans to undertake an environmental impact assessment of the proposed M11 link road; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ChopeThe Department has already carried out an environmental impact assessment of the link road. The document was presented at the 1983 public inquiry into the need for the scheme and its line.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport into what category the proposed M11 link road falls.
§ Mr. ChopeThe scheme to which the hon. Gentleman refers as the M11 link road is, to give it its full title, the A12 Hackney Wick to M11 link road and falls into the category of an all-purpose trunk road.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what Government funds have been made available to provide replacement housing for all those displaced by the proposed M11 link road; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ChopeThe Department of Transport has, over the years, purchased some 250 properties at full market value from people wishing to move from the area affected by this road scheme. The firm intention to go ahead with it has been known for a number of years, as have its likely housing implications. The Department of the Environment has taken these into account in making housing investment programme allocations to the housing authority most directly concerned, the London borough of Waltham Forest.