The £700m Birmingham Northern Relief Road is finally to be built following the failure of protesters to block the proposals in the Court of Appeal.
The court has upheld a High Court decision in 1998 that gave the go-ahead for Midland Expressway’s 27-mile toll road. Protestors tried to claim that consent for the road plan was unlawful.
The Birmingham Northern Relief Road is aimed at easing traffic congestion around the northern and eastern sides of Birmingham and intended to stop jams on the M6 – but it will also benefit key development sites in the area.
The controversial 129ha (320 acre) Peddimore development site in West Birmingham, which has been reserved for a single electronics inward investor by the government, is only three miles from the proposed route of the road.
EGi News 24/03/99
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