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DfT’s wider economic impacts advice ‘doesn’t go far enough’

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Andrew Forster
16 December 2016
 

The DfT’s new guidance on wider economic impacts (WEI)  appraisal for transport schemes doesn’t give the impacts enough prominence, say local authorities in the Cambridge City Deal area.

The new draft WEI guidance, which forms part of the DfT’s WebTAG appraisal suite, was published at the end of September (LTT 14 Oct, and see pages 12-13 of this issue). 

The guidance requires project promoters to prepare a context-specific economic narrative, and introduces three...

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