Chapter 1 Highway Legislation: England and Wales
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Published:2011
Trupti Patel, Richard Pearson, 2011. "Chapter 1 Highway Legislation: England and Wales", in Robert N. Hunter (ed.), Section 1: Financial, legal and contractual framework, ICE manual of highway design and management, Ian D. Walsh, Robert N. Hunter, Leslie Darrall, Paul Matthews, Paul Jameson, John Thorp
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The Highways Act 1980 sets out the primary legislation relating to roads, footways and bridleways in England and Wales. The Act is made up of 14 Parts, each of which deals with a specific subject. These Parts are divided into 345 sections in total and there are 25 Schedules detailing everything associated with the Act, together with various inserts in the form of sections and subsections that have been added since 1980. These inserts address the provision of road humps and traffic calming measures, stipulate requirements for environmental impact assessments for all major highway schemes and facilitate physical measures to reduce crime.
This chapter describes the Act and gives emphasis to those parts most likely to be encountered in a typical civil engineering career together with guidance on their application.
CONTENTS
Introduction 3
Part I. Highway authorities and agreements between authorities (sections 1–9) 4
Part II. Trunk roads, classified roads, metropolitan roads, special roads (sections 10–23) 4
Part III. Creation of highways (sections 24–35) 5
Part IV. Maintenance of highways (sections 36–61) 6
Part V. Improvements of highways (sections 62–105) 7
Part V A. Environmental impact assessments (sections 105 A-D) 8
Part VI. Construction of bridges over and tunnels under navigable waters and diversions etc. of watercourses (sections 106–111) 8
Part VII. Provision of special facilities for highways (sections 112–115) 8
Part VII A. Provision of amenities on certain highways 8
Part VIII. Stopping up and diversion of a highway and stopping up of means of access to a highway (sections 116–129) 8
Part IX. Lawful and unlawful interfaces with highways and streets (sections 130–185) 8
Part X. New streets (sections 186–202) 9
Part XI. Making up of private streets (sections 203–237) 9
Part XII. Acquisition, vesting and transfer of land etc. (sections 238–271) 10
Part XIII. Financial provision (sections 272–281) 10
Part XIV. Miscellaneous and supplementary provisions (sections 282–345) 10
References 11
