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- Unwanted anniversary marks year of National Highways planning delaysTransport secretary Grant Shapps and the country’s major roads operator National Highways are today marking an unwanted anniversary. That is because it is exactly a year to the day since Shapps last made a planning decision on time in relation to a National Highways development consent order (DCO) application.
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