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Revival for abandoned road plans
00:00 15 Aug 2001
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Road schemes, abandoned on the run up to the general election and
at the top of protestors' hit list, could be reinstated.
Long running disputes between protestors and the Highways Agency (HA) over the Hastings bypass could now be reignited after the HA was given a six-month deadline by the government to make scheduled road schemes work.
Schemes due for resuscitation are: the widening of the A23 south of Crawley, West Sussex; a 2km bypass for the A417 between Cowley and the Air Balloon roundabout in Gloucestershire; the A69 Haydon Bridge bypass in Northumberland; and an enlargement of junction 10 of the M20 in Kent.
The HA "will now look at how to minimise the [schemes'] impact on the environment, possibly by moving the habitat and woodland," a HA spokesman said. "It might mean that we look at slightly different alignments."
Long running disputes between protestors and the Highways Agency (HA) over the Hastings bypass could now be reignited after the HA was given a six-month deadline by the government to make scheduled road schemes work.
Schemes due for resuscitation are: the widening of the A23 south of Crawley, West Sussex; a 2km bypass for the A417 between Cowley and the Air Balloon roundabout in Gloucestershire; the A69 Haydon Bridge bypass in Northumberland; and an enlargement of junction 10 of the M20 in Kent.
The HA "will now look at how to minimise the [schemes'] impact on the environment, possibly by moving the habitat and woodland," a HA spokesman said. "It might mean that we look at slightly different alignments."
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