Consultation outcome

Key Route Networks: devolving more powers and responsibilities for locally important roads to mayors and their combined authorities

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 30 July 2021
• Last updated: 15 November 2022 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Key Route Network: consultation on powers and responsibilities for locally important roads

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Detail of outcome

Mayors will be provided with a power to direct their local authorities to take forward measures on the Key Route Network (KRN). Local authorities will remain the highway authority for both KRN roads and local roads. This will allow continued collaboration between mayoral combined authorities and local authorities, while providing mayors with powers to progress schemes on the KRN.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeks views on proposals to give mayors and their combined authorities greater decision-making powers and accountability for Key Route Networks (KRNs).

This consultation ran from
30 July 2021 to 11:45pm on 24 September 2021

Consultation description

Potential proposals, seeking public viewpoint, to give mayors and their combined authorities greater decision-making powers and accountability with regards to the Key Route Network (KRN).

The proposals include:

• providing mayors with additional highway management powers
• providing mayors with sole or concurrent highway powers over the KRN
• giving mayoral combined authorities the ability to delegate highway powers to local authorities
• providing mayors with the power to direct a local authority to deliver schemes on the Local Transport Plan
• giving mayors or constituent local authorities the ability to request responsibility for a route by order of the Transport Secretary

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Key Route Network Consultation: powers and responsibilities for locally important roads

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Published 30 July 2021
Last updated 15 November 2022 + show all updates

1. 15 November 2022

   Outcome of the Key Route Network: consultation on powers and responsibilities for locally important roads

2. 30 July 2021

   First published.