Cabinet to discuss M-way box
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• A Government announcement concerning the highly controversial London motorway box plan is expected before the GLC elections in April.
Home Secretary Robert Carr said last week that no Government decision had yet been taken and that the matter was of such importance that it would have to be discussed by the Cabinet.
Publication of the report of the Layfield inquiry into the plan is likely to be made before the end of this month, when Environment Secretary Geoffrey Rippon will make an interim statement in the Commons on the Government's attitude to the £2000m proposals. These include diversion of heavy vehicle traffic from Central London through residential areas such as Hampstead, Wandsworth and Greenwich and more than 20,000 objections have been heard by the public inquiry, set up by Labour in 1970, under the chairmanship of Mr Frank Layfield, QC.