A ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to tackle a major Southeast bottleneck, while restoring an important Surrey heathland, could be missed.

This was the message of the South East England regional transport board last week as it met at Hindhead to highlight the ‘years of delay’ over the scheme to dual the A3 by building a tunnel under the National Trust beauty spot of Devil’s Punch Bowl. Sue Saville, National Trust South East director, joined Cllr Nick Skellett, chair of the board, in urging an end to the Government’s procrastination over the region’s top-priority transport scheme. The £320M project would ‘restore a once extensive heathland and solve the transport problems that have blighted Hindhead for decades’. The hope is that work can start in 2008/09.

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