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CECA calls for urgent meeting with transport secretary
00:00 18 Jul 2001
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by Brian Warner
The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) is to ask for an urgent meeting with transport secretary Stephen Byers after the minister's decision to pull the plug on the £120m Hastings bypass rocked the industry this week.
A CECA spokesman said: "We want assurances from Mr Byers that he will not change his predecessor John Prescott's 10-year plan and that the programme budgeted for will go ahead."
CECA is sceptical about Byers' claims that "no individual decision will set a precedent for others to follow".
An Institution of Civil Engineers spokesman said: "The [Hastings] decision... sits uneasily with the government's agenda to modernise the planning system which at present leaves uncertainty for investors, engineers and the public at large."
Meanwhile fears are growing among contractors that green pressure groups will now threaten other proposed major road schemes, including the South Coast "Superhighway" from Dover to Exeter, the Western Orbital Motorway around Birmingham, and dualling plans for the A66, A303 and A30.
The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) is to ask for an urgent meeting with transport secretary Stephen Byers after the minister's decision to pull the plug on the £120m Hastings bypass rocked the industry this week.
A CECA spokesman said: "We want assurances from Mr Byers that he will not change his predecessor John Prescott's 10-year plan and that the programme budgeted for will go ahead."
CECA is sceptical about Byers' claims that "no individual decision will set a precedent for others to follow".
An Institution of Civil Engineers spokesman said: "The [Hastings] decision... sits uneasily with the government's agenda to modernise the planning system which at present leaves uncertainty for investors, engineers and the public at large."
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Meanwhile fears are growing among contractors that green pressure groups will now threaten other proposed major road schemes, including the South Coast "Superhighway" from Dover to Exeter, the Western Orbital Motorway around Birmingham, and dualling plans for the A66, A303 and A30.
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