PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Unadopted Roads (10 February 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what schemes are available to help communities which have a high number of unadopted roads, due to the closure of large industry, get adopted status for those roads.

Asked by:
Mr Richard Holden (Conservative)

The respective owners of private roads are responsible under legislation for ensuring that these roads are brought up to the required standard before local highway authorities can ‘adopt’ them and then maintain them at public expense. In cases where there are large areas of unadopted roads due to the closure of large industries, these may be improved by new developers as part of their development projects or the local authority can bid for Government funds through various programmes like the Local Growth Fund.

Answered by:
Grant Shapps (Conservative)
17 February 2020