Moved by
Lord Berkeley
25: Schedule 2, page 71, line 19, at end insert—
“Formation of route strategies: consultation and co-operation
1AA (1) The strategic highways company shall produce route strategies for all highways under its control (“specified highways”) and shall ensure such strategies remain up to date.
(2) In deciding how to divide up specified highways into route strategies, the strategic highways company shall have due regard to local government boundaries and travel to work areas.
(3) Route strategies shall consider—
(a) other transport modes, including railways and port facilities, that are served by specified highways or run parallel to them;
(b) the interaction between specified highways and other highways;
(c) opportunities to secure the expeditious movement of people and freight;
(d) opportunities to reduce environmental impacts.
(4) The strategic highways company must—
(a) carry out such consultation, and arrange for such publicity, as the strategic highways company thinks appropriate in relation to a route strategy;
(b) consult such persons, and such descriptions of persons, as may be prescribed;
(c) have regard to the responses to the consultation and publicity in deciding whether to proceed with a route strategy.
(5) In setting or varying a roads investment strategy, the Secretary of State shall have due regard to route strategies.
(6) The Secretary of State may make regulations about route strategies.”