Closed consultation

Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 15 January 2024

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

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Summary

Seeks views on proposals for reforms to street works legislation covering surplus lane rental funds, fixed penalty notices and weekend overruns.

This consultation ran from
15 January 2023 to 11:59pm on 11 March 2024

Consultation description

This consultation presents a series of reforms to street works regulations, which include:

• requiring at least 50% of any surplus lane rental funds to be spent on repairing potholes
• raising the level of fixed penalty notices that can be issued for 5 street works offences
• allowing overrun charges to apply at weekends and bank holidays

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Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds

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Published 15 January 2024