The Street Works (Charges for Unreasonably Prolonged Occupation of the Highway) (England) Regulations 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the charges payable to highway authorities by undertakers for the occupation of the highway where street works executed in a maintainable highway are unreasonably prolonged. The Regulations also make provision for the giving of notices relating to works to which they apply, create an offence of failing without reasonable cause to give a prescribed notice and make provision for the application by local highway authorities of charges received and the keeping of accounts.

The code of practice entitled “Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways” (1992) (ISBN 0-11-551143-1) and the code of practice entitled “Code of Practice for the Co-Ordination of Streetworks and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters” (ISBN 0-11-552310-3) are published by The Stationery Office and may be obtained from their bookshops or by mail, fax or telephone from PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN (tel. [phone]/fax [phone]) or by e-mail from [e-mail].

The Local Government Information House Limited is registered in England No. 3490270. Its registered office is Local Government House, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HZ (website www.idea-infoage.gov.uk/lgih/index.html). The website of the National Street Gazetteer is www.nsg.org.uk.

A regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of this order. A copy of it has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Further copies can be obtained from the Traffic Management and Tolls 1B Division of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Zone 3/17, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR. A copy has been published on the Department’s website at www.street-works.detr.gov.uk.