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National Highways Noise Mitigation Policy Our noise mitigation policy is underpinned by the approach set out in Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Noise Action Plan for Major Roads. This identifies Noise Important Areas (NIAs). Government has given National Highways an Environment and Wellbeing Designated Fund to enhance the environment. We are using this fund to provide noise mitigation in NIAs, but there are more NIAs than we have funds to mitigate. This policy sets out how we…

A bridge with a complicated history that’s helped shape how we work – including the establishment of a Stakeholder Advisory Forum where we engage with key stakeholders who advise on our choices in managing these assets. Share this article Location: Great Musgrave, Cumbria Open to the public? Yes Completion: Autumn 2023 Learnings from Great Musgrave We know there’s been a lot of interest in the bridge and the works delivered. We have listened to feedback and made substantial changes to how …

We understand the importance of research and development. It creates new knowledge to help us understand and improve our performance and meet future network challenges. We face an uncertain future, with fast developing technology and societal change. To make well informed decisions that will take us forward, we need the best available knowledge about: the way the world is developing the risks and opportunities this creates for us Undertaking research with academia and industry gives us a bu…

We want to provide our customers with as much information as possible about our work on the Historical Railways Estate. As part of this we publish our forward programme of maintenance work and the assessment reports we use to prioritise our maintenance activity online. We have a major works programme for the Historical Railways Estate which includes schemes that have been identified for work in the next 5 years. It makes up a small proportion of our overall programme of maintenance to keep HRE …

Back Published 13 February 2025 Press Release National Highways and its partners in Lancashire are helping a Britain in Bloom group grow for gold this year. National Highways and its partners in Lancashire are helping a Britain in Bloom group grow for gold this year. The team involved in delivering the A585 Windy Harbour to Skippool bypass regularly volunteered to help members of the RHS Poulton In Bloom group during the project, assisting with litter picking and planting. Now, with the t…

We're committed to playing our part in nature recovery now and in the years to come. Share this article Roads get us where we need to go and connect the country. However, roads too often create barriers for nature - severing habitats and species.  In 2020, we set out to halt the decline of biodiversity across our activities by 2025. We're proud to have met this challenging commitment to ‘no net loss’. In doing so, we've become one of the country's leading biodiversity champions in terms of…

Share this article More than two dozen research fellows and doctoral students work in partnership with us. Their research spans a range of engineering topics. Here, some of our research fellows and doctoral students explain how their work helps us contribute to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goals. Dr Jinying Xu Dr. Jinying Xu is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge. The title of Dr Xu's research is: Data science and advanced technologies for carbon …

Research publications can be found listed below within year order. 2024-25 publications Application of biocementation to improve a well-graded granular material against cyclic loading (external link) Automating construction of road digital twin geometry using context and location aware segmentation (external link) Bayesian dynamic modelling for probabilistic prediction of pavement condition (external link) BG-LoA: A Benchmarking Framework for BIM/GIS Data Integration Based on Meta-Modelling…

Meet our executive and non-executive directors Gareth Rhys Williams Nick Harris Scott Dale Janette Beinart Simon Blanchflower CBE Sukhi Johal Manny Lewis Kim Shillinglaw Rob Whiteman CBE Simon Wills Elliot Shaw Gareth Rhys Williams Chair Biography Appointed Chair in April 2024 The UK Government Chief Commercial Officer since March 2016. Trustee of Fauna & Flora International (FFI), the world’s oldest international conservation organisation, having previously served on the Council…

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