Chris Seeks Output From The Cumbria Plastic Roads Research Programme

WA Plastic Roads 8June22

Chris Seeks Output From The Cumbria Plastic Roads Research Programme

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Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of when the results of the Live Labs research programme, including the plastic road trial in Cumbria announced in January 2019, will be published.

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Trudy Harrison Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (ADEPT) SMART Places Live Labs Programme was a two-year, £22.9m project funded by the Department for Transport that ran until the end of 2021.

The Live Labs Final Programme Review & Project Evaluations report, published in April 2022, is available on the ADEPT website.

The Cumbria Live Lab remains open beyond the end of the first Live Labs programme for further, longer-term monitoring of the plastic roads trial. There is a five-year monitoring and inspection programme in place to enable the Council to continue to feed into the overall SMART Places research programme, also run through ADEPT.

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