MPs reject calls for cash to revamp London’s streets

13 December 2007

The Government has rejected a bid from central London’s boroughs for extra funds for overhauling footways, prior to the arrival of 500,000 spectators for the Olympics.

Local transport minister, Rosie Winterton, told London Councils that the call by three boroughs for £180M to revamp their streets ahead of the 2012 Games ‘was a matter for the Olympic Delivery Authority’.

But the call, from Westminster, Camden and Kensington & Chelsea, made in February, has not sparked a response from the ODA. The boroughs were talking to the ODA and Transport for London about what investment could be brought to bear in areas of London most likely to be affected by the Olympics, said Sam Monck, Camden’s head of street policy.

London Councils has criticised the ‘real-terms funding cut’ for borough capital projects in 2008/09, and attacked next year’s ‘devastating’ increase in revenue grant of 2%.

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