Milton Keynes’ bid would devour half UK infrastructure fund

28 May 2008
 
Milton Keynes would get more than half of the Government’s £200M community infrastructure fund for transport upgrades in housing growth areas, under a bid from the sub-region’s transport board.

The Milton Keynes South Midlands strategic transport board said its £112M bid for high-priority schemes was ‘essential to delivering 88,000 new homes’. It includes the £18.5M M1 junction 10a upgrade, £15M dualling of the A43 Corby link road, and £5.3M Milton Keynes busway.

In total, £260M of schemes were identified by the board, chaired by Garrett Emmerson, who said it was a ‘realistic, robust deliverable package to support housing and economic growth’.

The South East Regional Assembly transport board threw its weight behind four of the Milton Keynes ‘gold list’ priorities for 2008/09 – 2010/11 costing £19.3M as part of its advice on allocating £122M of the £200M pot of money. The board recommended a £16.5M road improvement for Ashford, the region’s other growth area, and also, in a recommended package totalling £122M, for ‘new growth points’.

South Hampshire received backing for the single most expensive scheme – the £35M new junction on the M275 to support regeneration of a 13ha semi-derelict industrial site at Tipner, and the largest amount in total for the period up to 2011, £55M.

This includes £20M for a bus rapid transit to replace the tram scheme thrown out by former transport secretary, Alistair Darling which, it was claimed, had compromised sustainable growth (Surveyor, 1 December 2005).

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