Question follow-through · 16797
Unadopted Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support her Department provides to highways authorities to (a) adopt and (b) repair and (c)upgrade (i) unadopted and (ii) ownerless roads that form key parts of local road networks.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 28 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support her Department provides to highways authorities to (a) adopt and (b) repair and (c)upgrade (i) unadopted and (ii) ownerless roads that form key parts of local road networks.
3 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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3 Dec 2024
Answer published
Unadopted roads that are not maintained at public expense by a highway authority are known as private streets, as defined by Section 203(2) of the Highways Act 1980. The responsibility for management of private streets rests with the owner, or more usuall...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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