bert wrote:
Who owns the land? Crown estates cannot be subject to compulsory
purchase orders. Prevented an obvious dual carriageway expansion near us
for years until finally a deal has been done - involving house building
of course.

A lot of it is already land banked as Highways land, particularly
eastwards of Hopgrave and westwards from Barton Hill and near
Crambeck Bridge. The biggest land take is going to be whatever
option is used at Golden Hill, and I think at that point just
building a new alignment over farm land is the best solution.

jgh