§ Caroline FlintTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) what is his estimate of the number of unadopted roads in England; [65896]
(2) what is his current estimate of the number of unadopted roads made up in each of the last five years, excluding newly-built estates; [65897]
443W(3) what estimate he has made of the number of people who live on unadopted roads in England. [65895]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonI refer my hon. Friend to the answer to a written question on the same subject on 14 July 1998,Official Report, column 118, from my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Derbyshire (Mr. Barnes).
Given that no central records of unadopted roads exist, it is also not possible to give an overall estimate for England of the number of people who live in them.
§ Caroline FlintTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what is the financial allocation made to local authorities for the making up of unadopted roads in the local government settlement 1999–2000. [65898]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonFinancial allocations to local authorities in the 1999–2000 Revenue Support Grant settlement are based on characteristics of local authorities including the lengths of adopted roads weighted to reflect their classifications. RSG is however an unhypothecated grant. The settlement takes no account of unadopted roads, whose upkeep is, in the majority of cases, the responsibility of the frontagers.
Previously undeveloped land used for new housing Year 1992 1993 1994 1995 19962 Average 1992–1996 Percentage of new dwellings1 built on land not previously developed 47 48 51 47 47 48 Percentage of land used for new housing that was not previously developed 54 53 56 52 53 54 1Excludes conversions 2Provisional estimate Source:
Land Use Change Statistics