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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will take steps to encourage the adoption of unadopted roads where there is a dispute over responsibility for paying for essential maintenance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will take steps to encourage the adoption of unadopted roads where there is a dispute over responsibility for paying for essential maintenance.
The decision on whether or not local authorities adopt roads on new residential developments, and therefore maintain those roads at the public expense, rests with each individual local highway authority. While we would expect them to act reasonably in all matters we would not seek, nor do we have powers, to influence them in these matters.
The Department has worked with representatives of the home building sector and with local highway authorities, and has encouraged them to work together to make best use of the existing powers for road adoption at their disposal. To assist this we have developed some model planning conditions that, where used, should work to ensure that roads on new residential developments are built to an acceptable standard, so that adoption can take place.
We are currently considering the effectiveness of the draft planning conditions we issued, and will be happy to write to you and update you on the outcomes in June.