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Road Safety (Local Authorities)

Volume 832: debated on Wednesday 8 March 1972

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115.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will publish a list of those boroughs and urban districts from which he is removing responsibilities for road safety after 1st April, 1972, and state in what way their carrying out of these responsibilities has been unsatisfactory.

Exemption from paying the county road safety precept has been withdrawn from 135 non-county borough and urban district councils.These exemptions were withdrawn because the arrangements which the

CountyNon-county BoroughsUrban District Councils
BerkshireAbingdon
Newbury
Wokingham
CumberlandWhitehavenKeswick
Penrith
DurhamDurhamSeaham
Blaydon
Barnard Castle
Consett
Bishop Auckland
Shildon
Hetton
Brandon and Byshottles
Stanley
Felling
Washington
Houghton-le-Spring
Ryton
Spennymoor
Whickham
Crook and Willington
HertfordshireHertfordBaldock
Sawbridgeworth
Potters Bar
Hitchin
Berkhamsted
Harpenden
Rickmansworth
Royston
Tring
Ware
Welwyn Garden City
Chorleywood
Hoddesdon
KentTenterdenSittingbourne and Milton
Rochester
Hythe
Chatham
Faversham
Queenborough-in-Sheppey
LancashireNelsonCarnforth
HeywoodAdlington
ColnePressall
ClitheroeLongridge
ChorleyWardle
Morecambe and HeyshamMilnrow
LancasterKirkham
LeighWesthoughton
FleetwoodChadderton
MiddletonGolborne
RedcliffeLeyland
DarwenOrmskirk
PrestwichNewton-le-Willows
Tyldesley
Billinge and Winstanley
Padiham
Tottington
Atherton
Prescot
Crompton
Thornton Cleveleys
Littleborough
Hindley
Whitworth

councils had made or were proposing to make were not as good as those the county council were willing to make.

Following is the list:

County

Non-county Boroughs

Urban District Councils

Whitefield
Ramsbottom
Poulton-le-Fylde
Ulverston
Lincolnshire (Holland)Boston
Lincolnshire (Kesteven)GranthamBourne
StamfordSleaford
Lincolnshire (Lindsey)CleethorpesHorncastle
Barton-upon-Humber
Skegness
Mablethorpe and Sutton
Alford
NorthumberlandBlyth
OxfordshireChipping NortonThame
WoodstockBicester
SomersetGlastonburyWells
ChardKeynsham
Norton-Radstock
Wellington (Somerset)
Burnham-on-Sea
Portishead
Shepton Mallet
Watchet
Frome
Street
StaffordshireTamworthKidsgrove
StaffordBiddulph
LichfieldLeek
Uttoxeter
Stone
West SuffolkBury St. Edmunds
Sudbury
East SussexHovePortslade-by-Sea
WorcestershireEveshamStourport-on-Severn
Yorkshire (East Riding)HedonDriffield
BeverleyWithernsea
BridlingtonHornsea
Haltemprice
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