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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 ...
Link Description M10: A spur that ran from the M1 to St Albans, now part of the A414.: M41: The former number for the West Cross Route, now part of the A3220 road. [4]A102(M) The former number for the East Cross Route, split into two sections:
National Highways traffic officer patrol vehicle with some equipment on display at an open house. Traffic officers patrol the motorway network and all-purpose trunk roads [ b ] in high-visibility patrol vehicles, that feature black and yellow Battenburg liveries, and amber and red rear-facing lighting.
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:
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The Institution did not take the name on board until the 1980s, when the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, repealed local highway authorities' 40-year-old powers of direction over local planning authorities' powers to grant planning permission for property development, threatening the integrated land use, transport, and socio-economic ...