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Health safety and wellbeing No one should be harmed when travelling or working on the strategic road network Home Safe and Well Home safe and well means getting home for the people we love and for the things that we love doing. At National Highways and throughout our supply chain this matters more than anything else. Highways Passport Your National Highways passport demonstrates you have the training, experience and qualifications to work safely on any National Highways site. Highways Comm…

Published 25 Sept 2024 Work has begun on the new community facilities at Hole Farm Community Woodland in Brentwood, Essex In this section Share this article Hole Farm Community Woodland, a 100-hectare site in Brentwood, Essex, will be the largest community woodland in the east of England. It is being delivered in partnership with Forestry England as part of the Lower Thames Crossing project and is set to open in summer 2025. The new woodland will be accessible to the local community, and f…

Our archaeological investigations so far have included a range of detailed surveys of areas of land that will be disturbed by construction both inside and outside the World Heritage Site. Almost two square miles of “geophysical” surveys along the entire length of the scheme and ground penetrating radar within the World Heritage Site allowed us to see beneath the soil before anything was dug. We also looked for and collected items on the surface of ploughed areas. These showed us where to explo…

This privacy notice sits beneath our top level privacy notice and provides information about how personal data is used with regards to the data and footage captured as part of an internal post collision fatal investigation on the motorways and major roads of England (commonly known as the strategic road network). Please see the main privacy statement for details on your rights and who to contact about use of personal data. What personal data do we collect and handle? When a fatal road traffic…

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The National Highways Development Centre is a realistic road, roadside and off-road testing and training environment open to all those developing solutions for the UK's road network. What is it? The Development Centre offers a unique opportunity to train and test in a safe simulated motorway and roadside environment. It is also a place to collaborate and engage with National Highways, for sharing knowledge, technology, expertise and experience to solve emerging challenges. The purpose of the …

With 250 archaeologists working on site during the peak of work, this scheme was one of the biggest and most complex archaeological projects ever undertaken in the UK. What we did and why We worked closely with Cambridgeshire County Council to ensure that areas of possible archaeological or historical interest were either investigated or preserved. Archaeological work began with geophysical surveys in 2009, when the scheme was first being considered. These helped to identify possible archaeol…

In this section The Lower Thames Crossing is proud to be one of the first organisations to have signed up to the Construction Leadership Council’s Five Client Carbon Commitments – simple, practical steps that organisations can take to show how they are reducing their carbon emissions and by when. The Lower Thames Crossing has been designed to be the UK’s greenest road, with carbon reduction running through the heart of the project. Always at the forefront of green construction initiatives, the…

These services only give information about roads we manage in England. Find out more information about the roads we manage, and who else is responsible for roads in the United Kingdom. Mobile traffic website Our mobile traffic website has been updated and optimised for use on all mobile platforms and tablets, providing regular updates about the status of our road network and providing the best possible experience to users accessing our information on smaller screens. Find our mobile site at …