Transport written question – answered at on 7 March 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what major transport projects have been approved in the last year, broken down by parliamentary constituency.
The major local authority schemes (outside London) listed in Table 1 were approved fully during the course of 2004:
Scheme | Constituency |
---|---|
Rugeley Eastern Bypass | Cannock Chase |
A167 Chilton Bypass | Sedgefield |
A158 Partney Bypass | Louth and Horncastle |
Cradley Heath Town Centre Strategy | Halesowen and Rowley Regis |
Sunderland Southern Radial Route | Sunderland S |
Barnstaple Western Bypass | North Devon |
South Lowestoft Relief Road | Waveney |
A429 Barford Bypass | Warwick and Leamington |
Stoke Hammond and Linslade Bypass, Bucks | Buckingham |
South West Bedfordshire | |
Northfield Regeneration Route, Birmingham | Birmingham Northfield |
West Midlands Red Route | Wolverhampton North East |
Wolverhampton South West | |
Wolverhampton South East | |
Walshall North | |
Aldridge-Brownhills | |
Walshall South | |
Dudley North | |
West Bromwich West/ East | |
Birmingham Perry Barr | |
Birmingham Erdington | |
Sutton Coldfield | |
Dudley South | |
Stourbridge | |
Halesowen and Rowley Regis | |
Warley | |
Birmingham Edgbaston | |
Birmingham Ladywood | |
Birmingham Hodge Hill | |
Birmingham Yardley | |
Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath | |
Birmingham Northfield | |
Birmingham Selly Oak | |
Birmingham Hall Green | |
Solihull | |
Meriden | |
North West Taunton | Taunton |
Primelines (Coventry quality bus network) | Coventry North West |
Coventry South | |
Coventry North East | |
Wolverhampton Centre access Interchange | Wolverhampton North East |
Wolverhampton South West | |
Wolverhampton South East | |
Derby Inner Ring Road Maintenance | Derby North |
Derby South | |
Plymouth A386 Northern Corridor Improvements, Park and Ride | Plymouth Sutton |
Plymouth Devonport | |
Salisbury Integrated Transport Package | Salisbury |
The major local authority schemes (outside London) listed in Table 2 were provisionally approved during the course of 2004. These schemes are approved with conditions, the main ones being that costs do not increase, statutory and consultative procedures are completed satisfactorily and their designs and appraisal do not change significantly.
Edge Lane West, Liverpool | Liverpool Wavertree |
Liverpool West Derby | |
Bexhill To Hastings Link Road | Hastings and Rye |
Bexhill and Battle | |
Sittingbourne Northern Developer Route | Sittingbourne and Sheppey |
Watford Junction | Watford |
Castle ford Interchange | Pontefract and Castleford |
Copnor Bridge, Portsmouth | Portsmouth South |
The schemes listed in Table 3 were added to the Highway Agency's targeted programme of improvements during 2004.
A27 Southerham to Beddingham | Eastbourne |
Improvement | Lewes |
M1 J21–30 | Loughborough |
Blaby | |
North West Leicestershire | |
Bosworth | |
Bolsover | |
Broxtowe | |
Ashfield | |
Nottingham North | |
North East Derbyshire | |
Erewash | |
Sherwood | |
Leicester West | |
Chesterfield | |
Charnwood | |
M25 J1b-3 Widening | Dartford |
Orpington | |
Bexleyheath and Crayford | |
M25 J5–7 Widening | Sevenoaks |
East Surrey | |
M25 J16–23 Widening | Hertsmere |
St. Albans | |
Uxbridge | |
South West Hertfordshire | |
Ruislip | |
Northwood | |
M25 J23–27 Widening | Enfield North |
Epping Forest | |
Broxbourne | |
Welwyn Hatfield | |
Hemel Hemstead | |
M25 J27–30 Widening | Thurrock |
Romford | |
Hornchurch | |
Chipping Barnet | |
Chingford and Woodford Green | |
A21 Kippings Cross to Lamberhurst | Bexhill and Battle |
Bypass | Hastings and Rye |
Tunbridge Wells | |
A23 Handcross to Warninglid | Crawley |
Widening | Horsham |
Mid Sussex | |
A453 Widening (M1 J24 to A52 | North West Leicestershire |
Nottingham) | Rushcliffe |
Nottingham South |
Decisions on road projects in London have been devolved to the London Mayor.
Yes2 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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