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Dock relief road decision expected
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THE FUTURE of a planned £104m relief road for London's docklands was due to be discussed at a Greater London Council meeting on Wednesday.
GLC's Planning and Communications Policy Committee was asked to consider whether it wishes to safeguard the alignment of the Southern Relief Road and consult with the borough councils concerned with the preparation of the final scheme.
If it gives the go-ahead, work on the road could begin in three years. Otherwise, the lengthier processes of using general powers would delay the work for several years.
The 5.5-mile road from the Bricklayers Arms, Bermondsey to east of Woolwich is routed twice across the Thames in tunnels, from Surrey Docks to the Isle of Dogs and the Greenwich Peninsula.
Committee leader Alan Greengross said before the meeting: "It is no good talking about resuscitating the 8.5 square miles of Docklands if one shrinks from making the correct decisions because they are unpopular in some quarters.
"There is little hope of repopulating the area and attracting jobs and prosperity if industry and commerce are denied a satisfactory road network to get their goods in and out.
"Of course, we shall encounter problem areas along the route, but variations of the line of the road could be accommodated in preparing the final scheme."