Tugwell maps out South East’s emerging pressure points

A Lower Thames Crossing is one of the emerging priorities for the South East’s transport network, the region’s development director Martin Tugwell tells Andrew Forster

By Andrew Forster

27 February 2009

“The reason why a Lower Thames Crossing is good from a strategic policy perspective is pretty well examined. We need to move beyond the concept now.” Martin Tugwell, SEEDA

England’s regions were this week putting the finishing touches to their Regional Funding Allocation 2 advice against the backdrop of a rapidly changing regional government scenery.

The Government’s own sub-national review reforms will see regional assemblies wound up over the coming months and the two regional strategies – the spatial strategy and the economic strategy – are to be rolled up into a single regional strategy prepared jointly by local authority leaders and...