Transport Projects

Transport written question – answered at on 7 March 2005.

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Photo of Tim Yeo Tim Yeo Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what major transport projects have been approved in the last year, broken down by parliamentary constituency.

Photo of Alistair Darling Alistair Darling The Secretary of State for Scotland, The Secretary of State for Transport

The major local authority schemes (outside London) listed in Table 1 were approved fully during the course of 2004:

Table 1: Full approval
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.

Table 2: Provisional Approval
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.

Table 3
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.

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