§ Ms AbbottTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the Hackney M11 link plan.
§ Mr. NorrisThe scheme will provide a strategic link between the A102(M) east cross route at Hackney Wick and the junction of the M11, the Al2 and the A406 North Circular road at the Redbridge roundabout east of Wanstead. It will comprise about 3.75 miles of continuous, dual-carriageway trunk road.
It will relieve existing unsuitable roads of strategic traffic. Stratford, Leyton, Leytonstone and Wanstead will all benefit when the heavy through traffic is removed from residential and shopping streets.
Following the recent successful defence of a challenge to the scheme in the High Court, tenders have been reinvited. We aim to start work in Wanstead in the autumn. The whole scheme will take about four years to complete.