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Answers to questions we often receive about trees on our land and neighbouring property In this section Our trees and your property Trees provide valuable screening for our roads and help them to blend into the surrounding landscape. Sometimes, however, trees can be a nuisance to people and property alongside our land. We want to be a good neighbour, but we need to balance any action we take against: our responsibility under the law maintaining the purpose we planted the trees for (for exa…

We’re implementing a programme of measures around the country to improve air quality at specific locations on the strategic road network. In this section These locations are called Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) links. The measures we are implementing include: traffic management managing speeds to reduce emissions working to accelerate the uptake of zero emission vans air quality barriers Traffic management Traffic management includes activities such as diversions, speed control, signa…

We've set progressive and challenging public sector equality duty ambitions and objectives that follow the 2020-2025 timeline of our second road investment strategy. We appreciate that everybody has a unique perspective shaped by characteristics such as age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation, as well as social factors such as culture, education and background. Our focus will be to …

The following policy relates to claims made against National Highways for alleged damage or injury incurred while on the strategic road network (SRN). These are known as 'Red Claims'. Introduction 1.1 A Red Claim is where a third party seeks to claim financial compensation from National Highways for damage or injury incurred whilst on our strategic road network (SRN). 1.2 The Highways Act 1980, (‘the Act’) is UK’s primary legislation to deal with the management and operation of the road netwo…

Most breakdowns are avoidable. Simple vehicle checks can help you have a safer journey, and save you time and money. Every year our traffic officers deal with more than 85,000 breakdowns. Over 40 per cent of these are caused by vehicles running out of fuel, poor tyre maintenance, power loss and engine trouble. The following simple checks could have prevented some of these breakdowns. Tyre tread All tyres are legally required to have a minimum tread depth of 1.6mm. To check your tyres: Place…

Whatever part of National Highways' network you’re driving on, we want you to stay safe and know what to do if anything goes wrong. Our videos explain the main features of smart motorways, and we provide advice and guidance on safer driving and what to do in an emergency. Know when you're driving on a smart motorway Around 10 per cent of the motorway network is now made up of smart motorways. So it's important to be able to recognise their features and how they work together. How do smart mot…

Home Safe and Well This is where we share resources and information about health, safety and wellbeing to support our workers and suppliers to ensure that everyone gets home safe and well. See Home Safe and Well - Our approach to heath, safety and wellbeing. We need your input too and want you to share your experiences with us, providing examples of best practice and lessons learned. This information will help us to create a bank of knowledge and experience that can be shared across our suppli…

A tool to calculate carbon emissions for operational, construction and maintenance activities undertaken on behalf of National Highways. We’ve published our Net Zero Plans for 2030, 2040 and 2050. To meet the target for 2040 under maintenance and construction, we're dedicated to achieving the target set for Performance Indicator 4.5, which relates to reducing supply chain carbon emissions. To meet this target, suppliers must report on the carbon associated with activities undertaken on our beh…

The Operation Brock contraflow system is designed to keep traffic on the M20 and other roads in Kent moving when there is disruption to travel across the English Channel Status of Operation Brock M20 is open Alerts We'll use these alerts at the top of this page to tell you the status of Operation Brock: M20 is open M20 closed for Brock contraflow installation or removal Between: junctions 8 – 9 westbound junctions 7 – 9 eastbound  Please follow diversion routes.  M20 – Open with Brock…

Transforming Manchester's Castlefield Viaduct from a disused railway structure to a green sky park is a story with many twists and turns, including starring roles on the big screen, says engineer Fiona Smith. Share this article Published 02 Aug 2023 I've looked after the viaduct in one form or another for 17 years, from engineer for the north to most recently senior engineer for the Historical Railway Estate. As a structure Castlefield is something of a celebrity in the railway structure wo…