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Highways England operates, maintains and improves England’s motorways and major A roads.
National Highways is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Transport .
Lists all Highways Act inspectors' reports and decision letters.
How to apply for a stopping up order to close or divert a highway, including information on the documents you must provide.
Information about how highway authorities can adopt roads.
As a local highway authority (usually a county council or national park authority) you have statutory duties to record and keep public rights of way open.
Rules for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, road and boat safety
Application pack for a licence to install works on Highways England's road network.
Who The Highway Code is for, how it's worded, the consequences of not following the rules, self-driving vehicles, and the hierarchy of road users (Rules H1 to H3).
The Highway Code is essential reading for all road users, including pedestrians, mobility scooter users, cyclists, horse riders, drivers and motorcyclists.
Local planning authorities can apply to remove vehicle rights on a highway to pedestrianise it.
Rules for motorways, including rules for signals, joining the motorway, driving on the motorway, lane discipline, overtaking, stopping and leaving the motorway. A number of the rules for motorways also apply to other high-speed roads.
How to apply for brown tourist signs for tourist attraction or facility located directly off a road managed by Highways England.
Redirected HS2 funding totalling £8.3 billion to support biggest-ever road resurfacing programme across England.
Highways England process for liaison with LHAs.
Rules for using the road, including general rules, overtaking, road junctions, roundabouts, pedestrian crossings and reversing.
Coastal Highway upgraded thanks to the UK Government, Caribbean Development Bank and the Government of Belize under the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Fund .
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