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Back Published 27 January 2025 Press Release A key route across Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire is benefitting from a new scheme which will make the road safer for drivers and those living nearby. Work started today (Mon 27 Jan) on improvements to the A5 designed to cut road traffic collisions as National Highways works to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the country’s motorways and major A-roads. The safety scheme features the installation of seven new average s…

Back Published 21 February 2025 News Press Release A key milestone will be reached by the project team tasked with transforming the A63 Castle Street in Hull when they pour more than 1,000 cubic metres of concrete into the underpass.   A key milestone will be reached by the project team tasked with transforming the A63 Castle Street in Hull when they pour more than 1,000 cubic metres of concrete into the underpass.  The project, due for completion by Spring 2026, will see a new split-leve…

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…

Delivering Social Value Annual Report 2023 Our first Economic Environmental Community Equality, diversity Recognising 2023-24 Foreword Introduction Social Value Plan prosperirty improvemement wellbeing and inclusion social value activity Contents 1. Foreword 03 2. Introduction 04 3. Our first Social Value Plan 05 4. Economic prosperity 06 5. Environmental improvement 07 6. Community wellbeing 08 7. Equality, diversity and inclusion 10 8. Recognising social value 11 9. 2023-24 activity 15 Nationa…

Preparing for climate change on the strategic road network - third adaptation report under the Climate Change Act January 2022 Preparing for climate change on the strategic road network - third adaptation report under the Climate Change Act January 2022 Contents Foreword 10 Executive summary 11 1 Introduction 15 National Highways 16 What is ARP3? 17 Our understanding of how the UK climate will change 17 Climate risks for National Highways 18 National adaptation programme and Climate Change Risk …

Back Published 11 October 2024 Press Release This afternoon the A421 eastbound carriageway, near Marston Moretaine, reopened for the first time since record rainfall forced its closure almost three weeks ago, allowing traffic to return to the road in both directions. Martin Fellows, Regional Director for National Highways in the East Region, welcomed the development and said: “We’re pleased to have the eastbound carriageway of the A421 open again, within 24 hours after seeing westbound traf…

Back Published 21 January 2025 News Press Release Beaumond House Hospice Care has been given some much-needed media equipment thanks to community funding provided by the team behind the planned dualling of the A46 Newark Bypass.  The hospice has been awarded over £3,200 from the project’s social value fund, part of a wider National Highways commitment to ‘give back’ to local communities by providing funding for projects, volunteer time, materials or arranging career-related activities in s…

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…

HIGHWAYS AGENCY NETWORK MANAGEMENT MANUAL PART 3 - ROUTINE SERVICE CONTENTS Chapter Page No. General 3.1-1 Introduction Inspections Information Management Operations Plans & Manuals Paved Areas 3.2-1 General Carriageways Footways & Cycle Tracks Covers, gratings, frames & boxes Kerbs, edgings & pre-formed channels Drainage 3.3-1 General Piped drainage systems Gullies, catchpits, grit traps, interceptors, soakaways, & manholes Piped grips Grips Ditches Filter drains & fin/narrow filter drains Culv…

Find out about National Highways' role in the planning system and how we are aiming to be a proactive planning partner. Our role in the planning system We are a statutory consultee in the planning system. You are encouraged to seek early advice from us if your development proposal: is likely to result in an adverse impact on the safety of, or queuing, on the strategic road network (SRN) is likely to prejudice the improvement, construction or maintenance of the SRN consists of or includes th…