![]() So far not a single spade has touched the ground around the Lower Thames Crossing’s planned route, which runs between Upminster and Gravesend via a tunnel underneath the river.Ībout £800 million has been spent on the planning paperwork alone, Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary, told Parliament last year. ![]() If laid end to end, documents for the Lower Thames Crossing scheme would stretch for 66 miles, The Times reported.Īlthough MPs are keen to see the project built, it has faced local opposition.ĭamian Green, the former deputy prime minister, told The Times: “I share the concerns about the sheer length of time and expense that the Lower Thames Crossing project is taking… I want to see it built.” The disclosures about the amount of red tape necessary to build the road were made after ministers delayed the start of construction by two years to process the scheme through Britain’s convoluted planning permission system. ![]() Paperwork for the £10 billion project, which would dig a 14-mile motorway tunnel east of the Dartford Crossing, is 250 times longer than War and Peace. A project to build a road tunnel under the Thames Estuary has become Britain’s biggest planning application at 359,000 pages long with 2,383 separate documents. ![]()
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