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Improvements to the slip roads and junction approaches at the M2 junction 5. Start date Autumn 2021 End date 2025 Cost £50-£100 million Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 04 February 2025 We've completed our project We've completed our M2 junction 5 improvements scheme in Sittingbourne, Kent. Key features of the scheme include: The Stockbury Flyover The project's centrepiece. Nearly a mile long, the flyover allows traffic to bypass the previously heavily-congested Stoc…

National Highways has fully committed to adherence of the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK-GDPR) following implementation on 25 May 2018. In relation to our collection and processing of personal data, please see the information below. This privacy notice sits beneath National Highways’ top level privacy notice and provides information about how personal data is used with regards to query resolution and other occasions where you may contact the team. Please see the main privacy statem…

In this section Active travel is important to us Our customers include everybody walking, cycling and horse-riding along or across our Strategic Road Network. We encourage healthy and sustainable travel through the routes we maintain and facilities we deliver. Depending on who you are, this could mean: low carbon journeys to jobs and services leisure trips on the many National Cycle Network routes crossing our network. In this roads period (2020-2025), we've invested over £80m from our De…

At National Highways, we care deeply about improving safety for our customers, our people and those in our supply chain. We are passionate about the importance of mental as well as physical health in achieving our vision of getting everyone home safe and well. Our aim Our long-term ambition is that no one should be harmed when travelling or working on the strategic road network. Our approach We focus our efforts on the development of our Health, Safety and Wellbeing Management System and thr…

This privacy notice sits beneath our top level privacy notice and provides information about how personal data is used in relation to our Mobile Phone and Seatbelt Detection Trial. The cameras used are not fixed as they're on a movable trailer or van. The location of the cameras is determined in collaboration with the Local Safer Roads Partnership and/or Police Force. Examples of the vehicles used can be found below. (Photos provided by Sussex Police) What personal data do we collect and hand…

The improved new target has been published in the project’s second annual sustainability report In this section Share this article   Published  04 Feb 2025 Sustainability report 2024 / 2025 Our second sustainability report highlights how we are designing the Lower Thames Crossing to be the UK’s greenest road ever Read the full report National Highways’ Lower Thames Crossing has today (4 February 2025) revealed a new target to reduce its construction carbon emissions by 70%; an ambition …

In this section Providing good active travel opportunities means working closely with organisations and charities with expertise in this area. Their expert knowledge is invaluable to us. Active Travel England Active Travel England became the Government’s executive agency to oversee local active travel delivery in 2022. We'll work with Active Travel England to deliver joined-up national and regional active travel. We'll be sharing designs and ensuring maximum value from active travel investme…

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We're making improvements to junction 19 of the M6. Start date March 2020 End date Completed April 2022 Cost £31 million to £66 million Overview Documents Project information Overview This busy junction is currently used by around 65,000 vehicles each day and is in need of improvement to meet the expected increase in traffic coming from the M6 and the A556. This increase is further exacerbated by the expansion of Manchester Airport (Airport City) and the development of the Wythenshawe Me…

In this section     On Thursday 7 March 2024, the Secretary of State for Transport approved the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project. This means we now have planning permission to dual 18 miles of single carriageway between Penrith and Scotch Corner. We are continuing to develop our plans, with archaeological work and preparatory utilities diversions currently taking place along the A66. Once the DCO decision challenge period has concluded, we will be …