Road improvement and investment

Local roads, major roads, motorways, road resurfacing and making roads safer.

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Guidance and regulation

• How to apply to close or divert a highway
  • Guidance
  • 25 March 2025
  • Department for Transport
• 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)
• Street works permit schemes
  • Statutory guidance
  • 31 March 2023
  • Department for Transport
• Strategic road network and the delivery of sustainable development
  • Guidance
  • 23 December 2022
  • Department for Transport and National Highways
• Local Authority and Transport Operators Data Collection System Discovery report
  • Guidance
  • 13 March 2025
  • Department for Transport

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News and communications

• Lower Thames Crossing development consent decision announced
  • 25 March 2025
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Press release
• Greenlight for £290 million improvements to M3 to support over 2,000 homes in Winchester
  • 13 March 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Press release
• Millions to see faster journeys as government green lights £90 million for 4 essential road schemes across England
  • 7 February 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Press release
• Cambridge South East Transport route: Transport and Works Act order
  • 9 January 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Decision
• Seven million more potholes to be filled next year as public urged to report roads in need of repair
  • 20 December 2024
  • Department for Transport and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Road length statistics (RDL)
  • 20 February 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Statistical data set
• Road lengths in Great Britain: 2024
  • 20 February 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • National statistics
• Roads and traffic (TSGB07)
  • 19 December 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Statistical data set
• Road condition statistics: data tables (RDC)
  • 17 December 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Statistical data set
• Road conditions in England to March 2024
  • 17 December 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Traffic regulation orders: changes to publishing requirements and special events order approvals
  • 15 January 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 18 April 2022
• Traffic regulation orders: applying for and creating orders plus using data
  • 13 July 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 21 December 2018
• A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet: full business case
  • 22 February 2024
  • Department for Transport and National Highways
  • Policy paper
• Network North
  • 13 October 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper
• A417 missing link scheme full business case
  • 30 June 2023
  • Department for Transport and National Highways
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Integrated Transport Block allocations
  • 28 March 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• Highways maintenance funding allocations
  • 23 January 2025
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• Traffic Signal Obsolescence Grant and Green Light Fund allocations
  • 20 March 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Transparency
• National Highways: Reported road casualties on the strategic road network
  • 27 September 2023
  • National Highways
  • Corporate report
• The Planning Inspectorate annual report and accounts 2022/23
  • 29 June 2023
  • Planning Inspectorate
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Transport
• HM Treasury
• Planning Inspectorate
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency

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• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
• Building Digital UK
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Homes England
• Office for Zero Emission Vehicles

• High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
• HM Land Registry

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• Motorways
• Road resurfacing