§ Mr. GorstTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence who owns the narrow bridge adjacent to the Royal Air Force east camp at Hendon; what assessment he has made of the effect of the existence of this bridge on the possibility of disposing of the site; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. HanleyThe two bridges adjacent to the Royal Air Force east camp at Hendon are both owned by British Rail and, at present, only single-lane road traffic can pass beneath them. Employment-generating development, would be road traffic intensive and would require, inter alia, the widening of the bridges, at the prospective developer's significant expense. A use which generates a lower volume of road traffic would reduce the need for infrastructural improvements.