Motorways

Operation, improvement and investment in the motorway network.

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Guidance and regulation

• Rapid charging fund
  • Detailed guide
  • 8 January 2024
  • Office for Zero Emission Vehicles and Department for Transport
• Objectives and conditions for Highways England
  • Statutory guidance
  • 12 March 2015
  • Department for Transport
• Future investment in England’s motorways and major roads
  • Detailed guide
  • 16 March 2017
  • Closed organisation: Highways England and Department for Transport
• Investment plan for the road investment strategy
  • Map
  • 1 December 2014
  • Department for Transport
• Road length statistics information
  • Guidance
  • 21 March 2024
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• A12 Chelmsford to A120 Widening Scheme development consent decision announced
  • 12 January 2024
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Press release
• £43 million for A38 to tackle congestion and create jobs in Worcestershire
  • 3 August 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• Deadline extended for the A1 Northumberland - Morpeth to Ellingham DCO decision
  • 6 December 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Written statement
• Road reform continues to deliver for road users and taxpayers, says new report
  • 22 July 2022
  • National Highways
  • Press release
• Union Connectivity Review update
  • 26 May 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Written statement

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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
• Evaluation of roads reform
  • 19 July 2022
  • Department for Transport
  • Research
• POPE of major schemes: M1 junctions 21 to 30 (junction 25 to 28) Widening
  • 1 April 2019
  • Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Research
• POPE of major schemes: M40 junction 15 Longbridge
  • 1 April 2019
  • Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• ORR's role and approach to the third road investment strategy
  • 31 August 2022
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 28 January 2022
• Review of The Highway Code to improve safety on motorways and high-speed roads
  • 29 June 2021
  • Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 30 March 2021
• Preparing the third road investment strategy
  • 1 December 2021
  • Department for Transport, National Highways, and Office of Rail and Road
  • Policy paper
• Road Investment Strategy 2 (RIS2): 2020 to 2025
  • 16 April 2020
  • Department for Transport and Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Policy paper
• 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

• Equality Impact Assessments and WCHAR reports on A14
  • 30 March 2021
  • Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Foi release
• Details of Boxworth Cycle Path
  • 25 March 2021
  • Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Foi release
• A14 Improvement Scheme
  • 25 March 2021
  • Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Foi release
• A27 Arundel Bypass scheme Light Detection and Ranging Survey
  • 1 March 2021
  • Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Foi release
• Higham Motorway Bridge
  • 1 March 2021
  • Closed organisation: Highways England
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Department for Transport
• Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
• HM Treasury
• Office for Zero Emission Vehicles
• Planning Inspectorate