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Q What are "principal roads"?

3rd February 1967, Page 127
3rd February 1967
Page 127
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AA new highway grant system is being put into effect by the Ministry of Transport to simplify the system of highway grants to local authority. Under this system as from April 1 1967 highway works will be divided into two categories only: improvements and maintenance. Capital grants will be payable at a rate of 75 per cent but only for improvements on a single class of road to be known as "principal roads-. This class will be roughly equivalent in mileage to the present class 1 system, i.e. about 14,000 miles.

All maintenance and improvements on nonprincipal roads will be aided through a nonspecific revenue grant, the Rate Support Grant, the aggregate of which will be determined on the basis of approved estimates of all local authority expenditure.