Paragraph 16 Highway worksI1
England and Wales
No work to construct or temporarily alter any new or existing means of access to a highway to be used by vehicular traffic may commence until written details of the design and layout of that means of access has been submitted to and approved by the highway authority.
The highway accesses must be constructed in accordance with the details approved under sub-paragraph (1).
The undertaker must carry out road safety audits of the highway works authorised by this Order in accordance with Standard HD 19/15 of the Department for Transport’s Design Manual for Roads and Bridges or in accordance with any standard that supersedes that Standard and must, to the reasonable satisfaction of the highway authority, implement any recommendations to mitigate or remove road safety problems and defects identified in any such road safety audits arising out of the authorised development.
Annotations
Commencement
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Sch. 3 para. 16 in force at 24.8.2017, see art. 1