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

Explanatory Note

(This Note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 74A of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (inserted by the Transport Act 2000) enables regulations to be made requiring an undertaker executing street works in a maintainable highway to pay a charge. These Regulations provide for the charges to be payable to such local highway authorities as may be so approved. Under the regulations the charge is determined by reference to the duration of the works subject to a maximum of £1,000 a day for each set of notified works in a street. The Regulations also make provision for the giving of notices relating to works to which they apply, create an offence or failing without reasonable cause to give a prescribed notice and make provision for the application by approved local authorities of charges received and the keeping of accounts

The code of practice entitled “Code of Practice for the Co-ordination of Street Works and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters” (ISBN 0-11-552310-3) is 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/(gih/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 2 Division of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Zone 3/17, Great Minister House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR. A copy has been published on the Department’s website at www.roads.dtlr.gsi.gov.uk.