Motorway Link Road at Thurcroft Approved
On 17th June 1965, it was announced that 300 hundred houses were to be demolished at Tinsley, to make way for a further extention of the M1 motorway. A junction with the A630 and A631 roads leading to Sheffield and Rotherham was to be built up on the site.
Sheffield Corporation were to help house the homeless.
The Ministry of Transport announced that work was to begin on six and a half miles of the Sheffield to Leeds section between Aston and Tinsley and would be completed by the autumn of 1967.
The Minister authorised acceptance of the £5,979,680 tender of Dowsett Engineering Ltd. The section was to link up at Aston with the northern extension of the M1 from Crick, Northamptonshire.
The contract also included part of the Thurcroft link, which would then complete the motorway route between Sheffield and Doncaster.