Assembly should change ‘Ill-conceived’ A30 decision – Rogerson
North Cornwall’s MP has welcomed confirmation from Roads Minister, Tom Harris, that the Highways Agency is to protect plans for widening the A30 between Temple and Higher Carblake.
The local Liberal Democrat MP has been working with local campaigners from the A30 Action Group to see crucial improvements made on the last stretch of single carriageway between Exeter and Truro.
Mr Rogerson took members of the Action Group to see the Minister late last year and secured assurances that the widening scheme would be kept up to date so that it could be commissioned as soon as the unelected South West Regional Assembly put it up their priority list.
Writing in a letter to then Lib Dem Shadow Transport Secretary, Susan Kramer, the Roads Minister said, “if, in the future, funding becomes available from the regional funding allocation, the scheme could be progressed, based on the route protection and preferred route that are already in place.”
Commenting, Mr Rogerson said:
“These reassurances are welcome but they won’t do much without the necessary funding.
“The Minister has offered the Regional Assembly the chance to look again at the scheme in 2008. I hope he will encourage themto consider this stretch of the A30 as a priority. Now the uncertainty over the abandoned scheme at Stonehenge has come to an end, the Assembly should reassess its ill-conceived decision to shelve the plan.”
