Sheffield M-way: missing link?
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• Sheffield industrialists and hauliers are upset about an alleged delay in the publication of a vital planning report which could affect the chances of the city having a motorway link with Manchester and Merseyside.
The report follows a public inquiry into objections to a plan to build the motorway via the Woodhead pass. Sheffield Chamber of Commerce is actively supporting the proposal.
A Ministry of Housing and Local Government spokesman denied that the report was being held back. He claimed that nine months was not an overlong period to wait for a report of this kind.
"The report is under consideration in the usual way and it will be published as soon as possible," he added.
The report will cover just a small section of the Peak District National Park Development Plan which firmly recommended—to the dismay of some motorway advocates--that such major road developments should only be peripheral.
The suggested route for the link cuts through the north of the Peak Park. The MoT is considering a feasibility study of the route prepared by West Riding county council.