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National Highways (NH), formerly Highways England and before that the Highways Agency, is a government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England. [3] It also sets highways standards used by all four UK administrations, through the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges.
Highways are vital for tenants and landowners because most property needs a means of access from the public highway. A property with no such means of access is called "landlocked", which has serious consequences for its value and use. The main statute governing highways is the Highways Act 1980. This gives responsibility for most highways to ...
Numbered roads in the UK are signed as M (Motorway), A, [12] or B [12] roads (legal "classification" varies between countries), as well as various categories of more minor roads: for internal purposes, local authorities may also use C, [13] D [citation needed] and U [13] (the letter standing for "Unclassified"); use of C and U numbers on signs is unusual but examples can be found in all four ...
Grand Edgemaster (talk · contribs) - Part-time wiki editor, looking at creation of motorway-specific maps from OpenStreetMap data. Ian13 (talk · contribs) - interested, but not too sure where we are going to source some information 10:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC) Teutonic_Tamer (talk · contribs) - noobie Wiki fan, East Anglia is my main area.
The Department for Transport (DfT) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.It is responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved.
The road passes underneath a covered bridge that links Morris House of Marlborough College to the North Block of the same establishment. [17] The college is an independent boarding school established in 1843 using some of the buildings that remained after the demise of the coaching trade, which saw the original Castle Inn Coaching House close.
Section 228 of the Highways Act 1980 is mainly used by the street works authority (county council or unitary authority) to declare a street to be a highway maintainable at public expense. The street works authority has to perform works on the route. Such street works need only be appropriate to the type of highway to which the notice relates.
List of road projects in the UK; Great Britain. The numbering zones for A & B roads in Great Britain. In Great Britain roads are numbered according to a zonal scheme: