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Statement from DfT
Regional Planning and the Highways Agency
REGIONAL FUNDING ALLOCATIONS AND MAJOR SCHEMES ON THE TRUNK ROAD NETWORK IN ENGLAND
Regional funding allocations will bring together capital financing for major transport schemes under the Local Transport Plan system and major schemes on about two-thirds of the trunk road network managed by the Highways Agency. Major road schemes on routes of strategic national and international importance will continue to be funded through national transport budgets. The following set of criteria, which all need to apply, were drawn up to help to identify the strategic national routes:
- Having average daily traffic flows, along the length of the route, of more than 60,000 vehicles
- Linking at least two of the top 20 English cities by population; or linking one of the top 20 cities with an airport/seaport or Wales/Scotland
- Carrying heavy goods vehicle traffic equal to or in excess of 15% as a percentage of all traffic, as an average along the length of the route
- Being represented on the European Union's trans-European transport network
Following representations received during the consultation on devolved decision-making, Ministers have re-considered the application of these criteria for a number of routes. The M5 south of Bristol was initially classified as a route of primarily regional, rather than strategic national, importance because heavy goods vehicle traffic makes up less than 15% of the traffic it carries. In the light of the representations received, for the purposes of regional funding allocations, the whole of this route will now be regarded as being of strategic national importance. Therefore, any future major schemes on the M5 - including the section south of Bristol - will be funded through national transport budgets.
Following consideration of representations, Ministers have not made any other changes to the categorisation of the strategic road network. A plan showing the categorisation of core trunk roads in England for the purposes of regional funding allocations is attached.
Routes categorised as of primarily regional importance are not being downgraded in importance. They will still be protected, managed and maintained by the Agency alongside strategic national routes as part of a single strategic network serving each region and connecting it to the rest of the country.
Department for Transport
July 2005
