Long-stalled plans to turn one of the busiest routes between South Ribble and Preston into a dual carriageway appear to have had new life breathed into them by the cancellation of the northern leg of HS2.
The widening of the A582 - between Lostock Hall and Penwortham - has seemed an increasingly distant prospect in recent years, with a perennial question mark hanging over funding for the near decade-old scheme. However, it has now been named in the government’s new Network North strategy, which sets out how the £36bn saved by scrapping HS2 is purportedly going to be spent on a raft of other rail and road improvements instead.
The A582 widening project was one of those intended to be funded under the Preston, South Ribble and Lancashire City Deal, an agreement designed to unlock the cash for the infrastructure improvements needed to create 17,000 new homes and 20,000 new jobs across Central Lancashire. Estimated in 2019 to cost £77m, it emerged at a City Deal meeting in March that year that the road scheme was facing “budget pressures”.
Several junctions along the A582 were widened in the late 2010s, both to add capacity and in preparation for the dualling of the entire route - including at Pope Lane, Chain House Lane and Stanifield Lane. Under the South Ribble Western Distribution plans, the following sections of road would be converted into a dual carriageway: A582 east-west for 1.
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