Shrimpsvoices

Rumours circulating that the Comprehensive Spending Review has signalled the end of the Heysham M6 Link. Road improvements listed focus on all the big projects such as M1 widening and a second Mersey bridge. Meanwhile smaller projects have bitten the dust. We'll only know when Lancs CC receives it's final spending settlement so the road may appear in LCC's funding support list.

Would be a disaster for local jobs and long-term investment. The main saviour (?) is that Heysham has been listed on the second shortlist for new nuclear power stations.

Build the road and the power station and the Morecambe area is set well to get through the next few difficult years relatively unscathed. Or listen to the MBI's and Morecambe will be on its knees by the time the economy picks up.

we are royally fucked if that road doesn't get built

IMO the road and the new power station are heavily linked, one won't happen without the other. chicken and the egg

It is vital even without the new power staion that road gets built

If Heysham gets the nod, and EDF (more than likely), the contract. Then I believe EDF will do what they do in France and pay for the relief road!

I understand the power station cannot go ahead without it, as the current 'recommended route' is too restricted.

surely as the land for the road has been purchased compulsarily then it will go ahead , just a case of when.

Brian C wrote:If Heysham gets the nod, and EDF (more than likely), the contract. Then I believe EDF will do what they do in France and pay for the relief road!

I understand the power station cannot go ahead without it, as the current 'recommended route' is too restricted.

EDF could build it and then have it as a toll road untill it pays for itself(building it) but obviously have it free for construction traffic working at the site(power station)

Keith wrote:Build the road and the power station and the Morecambe area is set well to get through the next few difficult years relatively unscathed. Or listen to the MBI's and Morecambe will be on its knees by the time the economy picks up.

Doesn't help when an opposition name somehow doesn't manage to get onto the ballot paper.