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Government announces new roads
28 March 2001
The Government today announced a £1 billion package of transport measures, including new road building projects. The planned new section of the A30 between Bodmin and Indian Queens will cut through Goss Moor Candidate Special Area of Conservation (CSAC)- an internationally protected site.
Tony Bosworth, transport campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said:
“There are some welcome public transport measures in this package. But once again the Government has shown that it is prepared to put new roads through some of our finest wildlife sites. The Government's big green test is still to come. Will Mr Prescott give the go ahead to two bypasses round Hastings? Or will he throw out plans to drive this most destructive road scheme through the beautiful Sussex countryside?”
Notes
1. The proposed Bexhill and Hastings Western Bypass and the Hastings Eastern Bypass would create a new 21 km road around Hastings and Bexhill, nearly all of which would be dual carriageway, damaging three SSSIs _ Pevensey Levels, which is also a Ramsar site, Combe Haven and Marline Valley Woods - and the High Weald AONB. The aim of the new roads would be to regenerate Hastings, but a study by consultants for the Government concluded that there were major doubts whether this would be achieved. The South East England Regional Assembly voted on February 14th to recommend building the bypasses. The final decision lies with the Secretary of State.
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