Paragraph 2 Designation of key route network roads: combined authoritiesI1

Section 107ZA of LDEDCA 2009 (designation of key route network roads) is amended in accordance with this paragraph.

For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)

A combined authority has the power to—

(a)

designate a highway or proposed highway in its area as a key route network road, or

(b)

remove its designation as a key route network road.

(1A)

In the case of a mayoral combined authority—

(a)

that power is a power of the combined authority exercisable only by the mayor on behalf of the combined authority;

(b)

the mayor may not designate a highway or proposed highway unless—

(i)

the mayor has prepared a proposal to designate it (a “proposed designation”), and

(ii)

the combined authority has passed a resolution approving the proposed designation;

(c)

if there is no highway or proposed highway in the combined authority’s area that is designated as a key route network road, the mayor must prepare a proposed designation in relation to at least one highway or proposed highway.

(1B)

In the case of a non-mayoral combined authority, the combined authority may only exercise that power with the consent of each constituent council in whose area the highway or proposed highway is.”

In subsection (2), for paragraphs (a) to (c) substitute—

“(d)

the mayor of a combined authority, in the case of a mayoral combined authority;

(e)

the combined authority or a constituent council, in the case of a non-mayoral combined authority.”

For subsection (5) substitute—

“(5)

A combined authority must maintain, and publish on its website, a record of the roads in its area which are key route network roads.”