The transport secretary yesterday announced multi-million pound motorway improvements to ‘unlock’ thousands of homes and jobs.
Chris Grayling said the planned Highways England road improvement schemes - worth up to £20m - would create thousands of jobs and homes in the South West.
More than £11m of this investment is from Highways England’s £100m Growth and Housing Fund, and the rest is from the private sector.
The intended improvements to the M4 and M5/A30 would unlock the development of more than 3,300 homes and create more than 6,000 jobs for people living in Swindon, Exeter and Weston-super-Mare, Mr Grayling said.
He also announced a £2.54m scheme on the A1 which would boost economic growth in Darlington in the North East.
‘We’re undertaking the biggest modernisation programme for a generation to bring our roads into the 21st century and give people the safe and reliable journeys they expect,’ the transport secretary said.
‘But these improvements will do even more – allowing the construction of thousands of homes and the creation of thousands of jobs to give a huge boost to the area’s economy.’
