Local roads

Operation, improvement and investment in the local road network

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Guidance and regulation

• Designing and modifying residential streets: Manual for streets
  • Guidance
  • 29 March 2007
  • Department for Transport and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
• Mini roundabouts: definition and use
  • Guidance
  • 3 November 2011
  • Department for Transport
• Local authority major schemes: monitoring and evaluation framework
  • Guidance
  • 20 September 2012
  • Department for Transport
• Major Road Network and Large Local Majors programmes investment planning
  • Guidance
  • 23 May 2024
  • Department for Transport
• Traffic management and streetscape (LTN 1/08)
  • Guidance
  • 12 March 2008
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• Transport Secretary kickstarts 'bus revolution' as she promises to support local leaders to deliver better buses up and down the country
  • 11 July 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Press release
• Network North: highways maintenance funding increase
  • 20 November 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Written statement
• £8 billion boost to repair roads and back drivers
  • 17 November 2023
  • Department for Transport and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • News story
• £20 million for traffic improvements in Lincoln (Levelling Up Fund 2)
  • 23 October 2023
  • Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Case study
• New street works regime to clamp down on pothole pain
  • 31 March 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Northern Ireland Road Network and Condition Statistics 2022-23
  • 14 December 2023
  • Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • Official statistics
• Road lengths in Great Britain: 2022
  • 13 July 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • National statistics
• Local major schemes: meta evaluation 2011 to 2016
  • 24 June 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Review of the digital intelligent brokerage project pilot
  • 13 August 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• Data table RDC0321 - Length of road network receiving maintenance treatment by road class and type of treatment, by Local Authority in England
  • 17 September 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Traffic regulation orders: applying for and creating orders plus using data
  • 13 July 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 21 December 2018
• Key Route Networks: devolving more powers and responsibilities for locally important roads to mayors and their combined authorities
  • 15 November 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 24 September 2021
• Local authority major schemes meta evaluation 2011 to 2016: government response
  • 24 June 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper
• Reviewing personal safety measures on streets in England: call for evidence
  • 27 August 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • Call for evidence outcome
• Draft Road Investment Strategy 2: government objectives
  • 29 October 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Traffic Signal Obsolescence Grant and Green Light Fund allocations
  • 20 March 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• Highways maintenance funding allocations
  • 20 December 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• 2015 to 2016 decisions for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund
  • 11 July 2014
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• Local Pinch Point Fund approved 2013 schemes
  • 13 December 2013
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• 2011 to 2015 decisions for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund
  • 26 October 2012
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Transport
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs