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Make
provision about standards of streetscape and highways design;
to |
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require the Secretary of
State to provide guidance and advice to local |
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authorities and the Highways
Agency on streetscape and highways design; to |
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require local authorities
to publish policies on the quality of design of traffic |
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signs and highway developments;
to require local authorities to have regard |
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to such policies when causing
or permitting traffic signs to be placed on or |
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near a road or when carrying
out highways work; and for connected purposes. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Guidance
to highway authorities on streetscape and highways design |
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(1) |
The Secretary of State
shall provide guidance to highway authorities setting |
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out criteria for the design
of streetscape and highways development. |
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(2) |
Those criteria must ensure
that traffic management needs are balanced against |
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their impact on the surrounding
environment. |
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(3) |
The Secretary of State
shall take such steps as he considers necessary to ensure |
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that appropriate advice
about best practice in streetscape and highways design |
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is available to highway
authorities. |
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Policies
on the quality of design of traffic signs and highway developments |
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(1) |
A highway authority must
publish, in such manner as they consider |
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appropriate, a policy on
the quality of design of traffic signs and highway |
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developments (a “design
policy”). |
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(2) |
The design policy must
have regard to any guidance published under section |
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The design policy must,
in particular, include— |
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(a) |
the minimisation of unnecessary
visual intrusion and a reduction in the |
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number and cost of signs; |
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the
maintenance of road safety and the provision of timely and relevant
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information to road users; |
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(c) |
the principles governing
all roads within the authority’s responsibility. |
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(4) |
A highway authority must
have regard to their design policy— |
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(a) |
when causing or permitting
traffic signs to be placed on or near a road, |
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(b) |
when carrying out highways
work. |
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(5) |
A highway authority must
carry out regular audits of traffic signs and |
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highways developments in
order to ensure that traffic signs and highways |
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developments meet the requirements
of their design policy. |
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In this Act “highway
authority” means— |
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(a) |
the Highways Agency, and |
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a local highway authority
within the meaning of section 329 of the |
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Highways
Act 1980 (c. 66) (interpretation). |
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Short
title, commencement and extent |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Streetscape and Highways Design Act 2007. |
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(2) |
This Act shall come into
force at the end of the period of two months beginning |
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with the day on which it
is passed. |
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(3) |
This Act extends to England
and Wales only. |
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