Private Roads: Lighting

(asked on 6th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of unadopted roads on developments built in the last ten years do not have street lighting.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 11th January 2022

The Department for Transport does not keep a list, nor is routinely informed, of how many roads are built on housing developments.

The legislation covering the process for local highway authority adoption of private roads into the public road network is set out in the Highways Act 1980. The Department has no plans to review this legislation since it continues to ensure that any new roads that are adopted and then maintained at public expense are built to the required standard.

The Department does provide advice to developers and highway authorities on the road adoption process. The 2017 Advice Note can be found at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-of-roads-by-highway-authorities. An update of this advice note is planned to be published shortly.

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