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Roads

Volume 829: debated on Friday 28 January 1972

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asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has for improvements to the principal road system in the South-East Lancashire and North-East Cheshire and Yorkshire conurbations.

The following 46 road schemes in the urban areas of South

AuthorityScheme
Bolton C.B.C.A673Inner Renet Road, Northern limb (Chorley New Road to Moor Lane and Kaye Street).
Daubhill link (junction A58/6140 to A579) (Bolton section).
A579Bury Road improvement (Bradford Street to Oaken-bottom Road).
Bury C.B.C.A58Rochdale Road widening (Heywood Street to Bury Easterly By-pass).
Cheshire C.C.Hyde Inner Relief Road, Stage 1.
A5102Widening (A6 diversion. Stockport to Bridge Lane). Bramhall.
A538Dualling (M56 to Wilmslow).
Lancashire C.C.A6017Guide Lane improvement, Audenshaw (Nelson Street to Denton Road).
A663Broadway improvement, Failsworth and Royton (Moston Lane East to Eustace Street).
A57Diversion, Eccles town centre.
Southern slip roads at junction of link road from Ashton-under-Lyne with Manchester Outer Ring Road.
Daubhill link (junction A58/A6140 to A579) (Lancashire section).
A668Blackburn Street diversion Radcliffe.
Manchester C.B.C.A6Downing Street overpass at Mancunian Way.
A5103Princess Road improvement (Parkside to Inner Ring Road).
Inner Ring Road, Stage 2 (Palmerston Street to Rochdale Road and including Oldham Road diversion Butlar Street to Inner Ring Road).
Inner Ring Road, Stage 3 (Rochdale Road to Salford boundary at A56).
Princess Road improvement (Parkside Road to Mauldeth Road).
A57Hyde Road improvement (Intermediate Ring Road to Inner Ring Road).
A57Hyde Road improvement (Intermediate Ring Road to Reddish Lane).
A56Bury New Road improvement (New Bridge Street to Salford boundary).
Oldham C.B.C.A62Manchester Street improvement (Southern Internal bypass to Frederick Street).
A62Manchester Road improvement (Frederick Street to Clowes Street).
Rochdale C.B.C.A671 and A627Molesworth Street, Wood Street and Oldham Road improvement (John Street to Ainsworth Street).
A627Oldham Road improvement (Ainsworth Street to Broad Lane).
A58Yorkshire Street and Halifax Road dualling (Lomax Street to Albert Royds Street).
Salford C.B.C.Manchester Inner Ring Road, Salford section (M602 to A56 North).
Stockport C.B.C.A626Diversion, Stage 1 (Manchester Road/Sandy Lane to Great Portwood Street).
A626Diversion, Stage 3 (Spring Gardens to Offerton Lane/ Woodlands Drive).
Bradford C.B.C.A6036Outer Ring improvement (Laisterdyke to Dudley Hill).
Dewsbury C.B.C.Southern By-pass, Stage 1.
Huddersfield Road improvement.
Halifax C.B.C.A629Huddersfield Road improvement.
A629Inner Relief Road, Stage 3.
Huddersfield C.B.C.A629Halifax Road improvement (East Street to M62).
A629Wakefield Road improvement.
A616Lockwood Road improvement.
Leeds C.B.C.A6120Outer Ring Road improvement (Leeds C.B. boundary eastwards to existing dualling at Parkstone Avenue).
Wakefield C.B.C.A61/A638A61/A638 Flyover.
A638Doncaster Road improvement.

East Lancashire, North-East Cheshire and in the West Riding of Yorkshire are to be added to the Principal Road Preparation List today.

Authority

Scheme

West Riding C.C.A644Improvement Brighouse to M62.
A638Diversion at Heckmondwike.
A638Cleckheaton By-pass.
A638Improvement Cleckheaton to Chain Bar (M62). New route Royds Green (M62) to A63. Shipley-Thackley-Leeds link.

Further schemes in these areas are being considered for the major extension of the preparation list, covering England generally, which it is hoped to announce before long.