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Planning for the future A guide to working with National Highways on planning matters October 2023 Contents Introduction . 1 Our role in planning .6 Our approach to planning .8 Key assessment considerations on planning matters .10 Engagement with plan-making .14 Engagement with decision-taking .18 Other statutory engagement .24 Funding .25 Key contacts .27 Acronyms .27 ii Introduction 1. This document, our planning guide1, describes 3. This guide is written in the context of statutory the approa…

We’re upgrading 11.2 miles of central reservation barrier in Bedfordshire, upgrading it from steel to concrete, to improve the safety and reliability of journeys along this stretch of the M1. We're also installing more CCTV and improving traffic and information signs between the junctions. Start date Winter 2023 End date Spring 2025 Cost TBC Latest updates Overview Documents Related road projects Latest updates 08 September 2025 We've completed our work We've now completed our work to…

A11 Fiveways to Thetford dualling Five-year post-opening project evaluation A11 Fiveways to Thetford dualling project five-year post-opening project evaluation Page 1 of 55 This document has been prepared by National Highways with assistance from its consultants (where employed). The document and its accompanying data remain the property of National Highways. While all reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of this document, it cannot be guaranteed that it is free of every potential e…

Back Published 07 December 2022 Press Release Bat boxes, 300m of dead hedging and supplementary feeding and planting are among the innovative measures National Highways is taking to help support a population of nine species of bats that have made their home in Somerset. Bats are fascinating animals – the only true flying mammal. There are 18 species of bats in the UK, with the creatures accounting for more than a quarter of mammal species in the UK and around 20% of all mammal species world…

Lean in National Highways Road Investment Strategy Period 2 2020-2025 Foreword The impact of the National Highways Lean programme can truly be seen as industry changing. I’m proud to say that practices such as Collaborative Planning, Lean Improvement interventions and Visual Management have become standard practice on our Major Project schemes and across our maintenance and operations programmes, helping to save time, reduce costs, minimise defects, improve health and safety and drive customer s…

Lean in National Highways Road Investment Strategy Period 2 2020-2025 Foreword The impact of the National Highways Lean programme can truly be seen as industry changing. I’m proud to say that practices such as Collaborative Planning, Lean Improvement interventions and Visual Management have become standard practice on our Major Project schemes and across our maintenance and operations programmes, helping to save time, reduce costs, minimise defects, improve health and safety and drive customer s…

Back Published 09 December 2024 News Press Release Three key routes in Cumbria and Lancashire are sharing in a £9 million investment in road safety projects across the North West. The A590 and A66 in Cumbria and the A585 in Lancashire are to get improvements designed to cut road traffic collisions as National Highways works to reduce killed and seriously injured (KSI) casualty figures. Work on the first of the three projects – which all feature the installation of new average safety camer…

2Strategic Design Panel Progress report Contents Foreword 6 Executive summary 10 1. The Panel 13 2. Making progress 17 3. Design vision and principles 22 4. Design review 25 5. Design advice 26 6. Design evaluation 28 7. Key recommendations and forward planning 30 Appendix A – Maintaining an understanding of wider 32 Highways England work and external best practice Cover M5 Devon 3 A120 Essex Foreword There has been good progress over the past year by The Panel have continued to examine and chal…

Back Published 31 July 2024 Press Release Drivers using the M6 through Lancashire and Cumbria this weekend are being advised to look out for a wide load movement on Saturday (3 August). The movement involves a huge electricity transformer being carried from the port at Heysham in Lancashire to a National Grid site at Longtown north of Carlisle in Cumbria. The operation begins at 9am from Heysham on Saturday and will last around 12 hours. The load, more than six metres wide and weighing 450…

Great Musgrave Bridge (EDE/25) CS454 Assessment Certification Contents 1. Introduction . 2 General Overview . 2 List and Description of Appendices . 3 Appendices Appendix A: Form AA Appendix B: Form BA Appendix C: Calculations 0451648 1 Great Musgrave Bridge (EDE/25) CS454 Assessment Certification 1. Introduction General Overview Structure Type: Single span overbridge Superstructure Form: Semi-elliptical masonry stone arch (skewed). Substructure Form: Gravity type stone abutments and wingwalls. …