HC Deb 27 February 1992 vol 204 cc550-7W
Mr. Cartwright

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he plans to announce the detailed guidelines for the use of discretionary powers to acquire property affected by his Department's road schemes which were referred to in his answer to the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Mailing (Sir J. Stanley) of 21 November, 1991Official Report, column 237.

Mr. Chope

I announced the detailed guidelines for the use of the new discretionary powers of section 62 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 on 17 January, pursuant to my answer to my right hon. Friend the Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Sir J. Stanley).

Sir Peter Blaker

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list in theOfficial Report for each highway authority (a) the value of the first year return, (b) the total net present value and (c) the length of each road project which qualified for transport supplementary grant in each year from 1989–90 to 1991–92; and if he will give the same information for each road project which has been accepted for transport supplementary grant in 1992–93 and for the proposed Squires Gate link road, phase 2, in Lancashire.

Mr. Chope

[holding answer 24 February 1992]: Listed are the details requested for major schemes newly accepted for transport supplementary grant in the years 1989–90 to 1992–93. The tables also include similar information on the Squires Gate link road phase II.

Authority Scheme First year rate of return (per cent.) Total net present value (£ million) Length of scheme (kilometres) Duration of scheme (months)
Avon (pt. 4096) Avon R.R. IB2: Westerleigh Road-Shortwood Road 14 26.1 2.3 18
Avon Urban Traffic Control 80 3.5 n/s 30
Berkshire Reading Urban Traffic Control n/s n/s n/s 14
Buckinghamshire Wing-Milton Keynes Fenny Stratford BP (MKDC Con.)[C] n/s 3.7 2.2 18
Cambridgeshire Elton/Chesterton BP (Excl. PDC Contribution) [C] n/s 5.0 5.9 18
Cheshire Diversion (Phase 2) Warrington 8 0.5 1.2 24
Cleveland (pt. 1024) Guisborough Road Improvement 6 0.4 1.0 12
Cornwall (1368) Sticker Bypass 8 0.4 3.0 18
Cumbria Papcastle Diversion 21 3.3 2.0 24
Cumbria Romney Road Link [C] (Excl. Developer's Contribution) 61 3.3 0.3 18
Devon UTC/Scoot Phase 3 n/s n/s n/s 60
Durham Wheatley Hill Bypass 13 2.0 3.5 30
East Sussex Brighton Bypass-Hangleton Link [C] (Excl. DTP Contribution) n/s n/s 1.7 24
Essex Little Waltham to Great Leighs Stages 1 and 2 n/s n/s 1.6 13
Hampshire West Totton Bypass (2) 15 10.5 1.2 24
Humberside Hull Ennerdale Link 53 18.1 3.3 39
Humberside Humber Bridge Northern Approach Road 12 3.3 5.3 21
Kent Eastry Bypass 14 0.6 2.5 20
Kent Maidstone Spine Road 46 30.4 2.7 42
Kent Somerhill Park Link Tonbridge 17 1.9 2.3 26
Kent South Ashford to Hamstreet 7 -01 6.2 27
Kent Stockbridge to Brenzett 7 0.1 4.0 18
Kent Sturry Road to Military Road Link Canterbury 32 1.1 0.2 12
Kent Whitfield Bypass 11 0.4 2.1 17
Kent Whitfield to Eastry 8 0.3 7.5 24
Lancashire (RN) Penwortham Bypass Extension to Preston 14 9.8 1.2 19
Lancashire Accrington Town Centre Relief Road 45 3.4 0.7 12
Lancashire Freckleton Bypass 21 5.7 3.3 15
Lancashire Kirkham and Wesham Bypass 16 2.7 1.9 18
Lancashire Lancaster/Morecambe Bypass (Phase I) 81 8.3 5.8 24
Leicestershire Syston Northern Bypass 6 0.5 2.3 16
Lincolnshire Wainfleet bypass 20 1.4 3.8 20
Norfolk Dersingham/Snettisham Bypass n/s 7.7 5.8 18
Northamptonshire Staverton Bypass n/s 0.1 1.2 5
Nottinghamshire Hucknall Bypass n/s 4.5 5.4 55
Nottinghamshire Portland Street to Inner Ring Road Mansfield 99 n/s 0.5 10
Shropshire Whitchurch Bypass n/s 0.2 2.1 24
Staffordshire Hawkins Lane Link Burton-upon-Trent 22 1.0 0.5 15
Suffolk Long Melford Bypass 9 1.5 5.4 18
Surrey Ewell Bypass 26 3.9 1.6 18
West Sussex Rustington Bypass 9 2.1 3.0 24

Schemes newly accepted for Transport Supplementary Grant in 1990–91
n/s: Data not supplied by local highway authority
Authority Scheme First year rate of return (per cent.) Total net present value (£ million) Length of scheme (kilometres) Duration of scheme (months)
Croydon Mitcham Road/Sumner Road Junction Improvement 19 1.0 n/s 17
Ealing South Road Pedestrianisation (Southall TN Center) n/s 1.6 0.1 21
Merton (RN) Beddington/Mitcham Relief Road 61 59.8 3.3 32
Wandsworth Battersea Park Road (Alexandra Avenue-Queenstown Road) 16 n/s 0.6 21
Bolton Outer Ring Road Improvements 176 20.5 10.6 60
Manchester Airport Access Roads Stage 2 (M56 Spur/ Airport) 66 1.8 0.6 14
Manchester Intermediate Ring Road Stage 2 (Pottery Lane-Oldham Road) 17 6.8 3.1 36
Manchester Intermediate Ring Road Stage 1 (Kirkmanshulme Lane-Pottery Lane) 51 11.6 1.4 20
Stockport (5283) Brinksway Improvement Phase 2 12 4.2 0.6 19
Wigan Lowton St. Mary's Bypass 14 2.6 1.4 18
Knowsley (RN) M57-A562 Link Road 8 20.6 4.5 30
Liverpool Great Howard Street Improvement Phase 1 n/s n/s 0.8 18

Authority Scheme First year rate of return (per cent.) Total net present value (£ million) Length of scheme (kilometres) Duration of scheme (months)
Sheffield (0353) Outer Ring Road Darnall Stage II, III and IV 5 0.2 2.6 51
Sheffield (5475 and 5476) Penistone Road Stages II and III 28 4.8 2.5 36
Sunderland Eastern Relief Road n/s 7.6 0.8 30
Birmingham (5691) UDA Spine Road (Heartlands) n/s n/s 4.1 43
Birmingham Lichfield Road Improvement Phase 1 (UDA Scheme) 52 66.2 1.2 42
Birmingham Middle Ring Road (Lawley Street Viaduct Section) 53 4.4 0.5 18
Coventry North-South Road Phase 1 37 28.4 2.4 18
Dudley Dudley Southern Bypass 15 59.3 3.1 66
Solihull (5404) Shirley Junction Improvements Phase I 24 3.2 0.8 14
Bradford (5031) Bradford City Ring Road Stage II 23 71.9 1.2 24
Bradford Killinghall Triangle 182 30.5 0.4 8
Leeds Leeds Inner Ring Road Stages 6 and 7 n/s n/s 2.2 24
Avon (5657) Western Super Mare PDR Stages VA and VB 11 3.9 1.4 24
Avon Avon Ring Road (IV): Marsham Way-A4 Bath Road 19 6.4 2.8 30
Bedfordshire Stagsden Bypass n/s 1.2 3.0 12
Berkshire Sandhurst Crowthorne Bypass n/s 27.9 3.8 18
Berkshire Slough Bath Road Montem Lane-Wellington Street n/s 11.1 0.6 18
Cambridgeshire A14/A603/B1042 Junction Improvement Arrington 13 n/s 1.0 6
Cheshire Wilmslow Local Bypass n/s n/s 3.0 30
Cleveland (1026) Thornaby Bypass 22 18.8 5.0 87
Cornwall Liskeard Industrial Distributor Road 2 5.6 1.5 13
Devon Milehouse Junction Improvement Plymouth 79 28.6 0.4 12
Devon Thorns Cross to Eagle Farm Stage 4 15 6.8 2.8 12
Devon Torbay Ring Road Stage 2 62 34.8 2.7 12
Devon Western Approach/Union Street Junction Improvement Plymouth 91 34.2 0.8 9
Dorset (pt5740) Primary Network/A37 Improvement-Section A AIP 7 0.1 2.8 8
Durham Consett Bypass Stage II n/s n/s 1.8 18
Durham Metal Bridge to Bowburn 9 3.5 1.8 12
East Sussex Boarshead to Eridge 14 10.0 3.9 24
Essex Canes Lane Improvement (Final Stage) n/s 1.8 1.7 18
Essex Dovercourt Bypass Stage 2 Phase 2 n/s 2.9 2.5 24
Hampshire M3 Link Minley 49 45.7 1.0 20
Hereford and Worcester A44-A422 Link Worcester Road-Whittington Road Marl Bank 27 71.3 1.0 12
Hereford and Worcester Roman Road Hereford Phase 4 Stage 2 4 -0.3 1.5 6
Kent Dartford Northern Bypass 43 68.3 3.0 24
Kent Thames-Side Industrial Route (TIR) Stage 1 56 21.3 2.4 24
Lancashire Blackburn Inner Relief Road (Phase 1) 30 13.9 0.9 16
Lancashire Park Road/St.-Helens Road Link Ormskirk 17 7.6 0.4 9
Lancashire Squires Gate Lane Blackpool Dualling 19 6.4 1.4 12
Leicestershire Ashby-Loughborough Coleorton Improvement 12 0.2 1.9 10
Leicestershire Redland Quarry to Quorn/Mountsorrel Bypass Link n/s 0.3 1.1 n/s
Norfolk Watton Inner Relief Road n/s 5.9 0.5 9
Northamptonshire Middleton Cheney BP and Overthorpe Hall Improvement n/s 13.8 3.2 17
Northamptonshire Nene Valley Way I Crawler Lane n/s 1.4 1.2 6
Northamptonshire River Tove Bends n/s 2.7 1.1 14
Northumberland Prudhoe Northern Bypass n/s 23.2 4.4 30
Northumberland Swinburne Quarry to Fourlaws Stage 1 n/s 1.3 2.0 18
North Yorkshire Sherburn-in-Elmet and South Milford Bypass n/s 7.4 6.8 24
Nottinghamshire Manvers Street Link Nottingham n/s 3.8 1.8 57
Oxfordshire (RN) Banbury Inner Relief Road 23 37.4 2.0 24
Shropshire Ironbridge Bypass Extension 24 3.7 2.8 12
Somerset Lysander Road to Hendford Yeovil n/s n/s 0.7 9
Staffordshire Burslem Town Centre Bypass 2 0.5 0.5 15
Suffolk Mutford Bridge 12 0.5 0.5 18
Suffolk Stowmarket Relief Road 10 10.1 1.6 18
West Sussex Crawley South Western Bypass n/s 15.1 2.3 n/s
West Sussex Littlehampton Bypass (Main Scheme) n/s 24.7 1.8 n/s
Wiltshire Burbage Bypass 13 2.6 2.6 24
Wiltshire Swindon Cricklade Road Relief Road-Stage 2 n/s n/s 1.2 14

Schemes newly accepted for Transport Supplementary Grant in 1991–92
n/s: Data not supplied by local highway authority
Authority Scheme First year rate of return (per cent.) Total net present value (£ million) Length of scheme (kilometres) Duration of scheme (months)
Barking and Dagenham Beacontree Heath Road Improvements n/s n/s 0.3 24
Bromley Elmers End Road Railway Bridge 25 2.8 0.2 16
Ealing Iron Bridge Highway Improvement 92 21.2 0.3 15
Hillingdon Uxbridge Town Centre Improvement Scheme 44 34.6 1.0 29
Stockport A34 Bypass (Etchells Road to Schools Hill) n/s 1.1 1.1 30
Newcastle upon Tyne Scotswood Road Phase 1 n/s n/s n/s 11
Berkshire Phase 2 A33 Relief Road Rose Kiln Lane to I.D.R. n/s n/s 1.2 24
Buckinghamshire A509/A422 Newport Pagnall BP Dualling (MKDC Con.) n/s 8.6 4.2 12
Cheshire Handforth BP and MAELR (Stockport/ Developer Funded) 31 93.1 11.2 24
Cheshire Urban Traffic Control System (Chester Warrington) n/s n/s n/s 48
Cleveland Portrack Lane Dualling 38 19.6 0.9 45
Cornwall Penryn and Falmouth Distributor Road 13 9.5 3.8 25
Cumbria Rothay Link 10 1.3 0.7 20
Devon A38O Relief Road (Kerswell to Hele Road) 70 15.9 1.6 24
Devon Halcyon Road Newton Abbot Town Centre 103 34.5 0.4 12
Dorset West Stafford Bypass 9 0.9 3.0 15
Durham Darlington Cross Town Route Stage I n/s n/s 1.9 24
Durham Teesside Link and Airport Access 14 10.0 5.4 24
East Sussex East Hoathly Bypass 38 11.5 1.8 12
Essex Stanford-le-Hope to Five Bells Stage 2 n/s 110.5 3.5 24
Gloucestershire Eastington-Stroud Stage 2 (Stonehouse Court-Horsetrough Junction) n/s n/s 1.1 45
Hampshire Totton Western Bypass (Stage 3) 22 43.6 2.6 n/s
Hereford and Worcester Alvechurch Bypass 45 17.1 3.0 19
Humberside Leven Bypass 16 5.2 4.3 24
Kent Roydon Hall Bends to A26 22 3.5 1.5 12
Leicestershire Hinckley Northern Perimeter Completion 40 7.9 3.1 25
Lincolnshire Grantham Inner Relief Road n/s 1.7 0.7 11
Norfolk King's Lynn Traffic Management Scheme n/s n/s n/s 22
Norfolk Stratton Strawless-Hevingham Improvement n/s 1.6 4.2 4
Northamptonshire Brackley Southern Bypass 28 10.9 n/s 12
North Yorkshire Ripon BP/Distributor Roads and Works in City Centre 16 17.7 3.5 24
Shropshire Newport Bypass 13 5.4 3.0 16
Somerset Shepton Mallet to East of Dean 6 1.6 7.6 36
Staffordshire Keele Bypass 14 2.1 1.8 11
West Sussex Hooklands Improvement n/s 9.4 2.0 24
Wiltshire Trowbridge Relief Road Stage 2 n/s n/s 0.6 12

Schemes newly accepted for Transport Supplementary Grant in 1992–93
n/s: Data not supplied by local highway authority
Authority Scheme First year rate of return (per cent.) Total net present value (£ million) Length of scheme (kilometres) Duration of scheme (months)
Hackney Lea Bridge Road E5-Renewal of Bridge Deck n/s n/s 0.5 42
Waltham Forest Lea Bridge Reconstruction-Con t. to Hackney n/s n/s 0.1 30
Wirral New Chester Road Improvement (MDC Cont.) 11 2.8 1.0 12
Barnsley Dearne Towns Link Road 12 31.6 12.4 57
Sheffield A61 Sheffield Parkway/Park Square Junction Improvement 198 10.7 0.3 10
Gateshead Western Riverside Route ST1 PH2 and ST2 n/s n/s 0.9 18
Newcastle upon Tyne Scotswood Road Impt.—West of Paradise n/s 8.9 0.9 9
Sunderland Doxford Park Access Road Stage 2 (Bypass) n/s 4.4 0.5 7
Birmingham Thimble Mill Lane (UDA Scheme) Phase 2 79 11.1 0.8 8
Dudley High Street Amblecote 104 31.5 0.7 13
Solihull West Midlands Renaissance Area 6 16.8 4.8 72
Kirklees Huddersfield Ring Road IMP PH 2 n/s 20.3 11.9 6
Avon Avonmouth Link n/s n/s 0.5 24
Buckinghamshire Bletchley Road Diversion Buckingham (MKDC Con.) 17 2.6 1.8 12
Cambridgeshire Spittals Link Huntingdon 61 15.9 0.8 14
Cheshire Upton (Chester) Park and Ride n/s n/s 0.4 12
Cleveland Guisborough Bypass 28 24.5 1.9 23
Cornwall Egloshayle Bypass n/s n/s 1.5 9
Devon Tavistock Road Dualling Stage 1 Plymouth 32 7.9 0.9 12

Authority Scheme First year rate of return (per cent.) Total net present value (£ million) Length of scheme (kilometres) Duration of scheme (months)
Dorset A37 IMP SEC B&C A356-Somerset Boundary n/s n/s 12.4 48
Durham Newton Cap Diversion 17 10.5 1.8 24
East Sussex A26 Mailing Hill (Local Traffic) Rel. Road Lewes 13 1.8 0.4 30
Essex Aukingford Gardens-Talbot Roundabout ST 1 & 2 8 2.7 4.5 24
Gloucestershire Lydney Highway Strategy-Part 1 (Bypass) 9 4.2 4.8 48
Hampshire Bentley Bypass 11 18.2 2.3 18
Humberside Beverley North East Bypass n/s n/s 2.5 12
Kent Ash Bypass 12 4.5 5.5 16
Kent Medway Tunnel 38 172.1 15.0 38
Lancashire Chorley Town Centre Bypass Phase III 34 13.4 0.7 20
Leicestershire Leicester Motorways Employment Area STIV Soar Valley Way 41 17.4 1.7 12
Lincolnshire Swallow Bypass and Route Improvement 19 5.2 3.6 12
Norfolk Kirstead Bypass n/s 0.1 1.8 9
Northamptonshire Deanshanger Bypass 15 3.1 1.5 10
North Yorkshire A59 Bolton Bridge Bypass 8 0.9 2.1 12
Oxfordshire Wallingford Bypass 8 4.6 4.4 24
Somerset Glastonbury Western Relief Road 17 11.0 3.7 25
West Sussex Chichester and Bognor Regis Improvement (Phase 1) n/s 6.0 1.7 15
Wiltshire The Meads Roundabout Swindon Grade Separation 9 n/s 0.8 19
For comparison the following information was provided for 1992–93:
Lancashire Squires Gate Link Road Phase II 29 24.0 2.1 18