East Midlands Council Highways Agency Role in Planning and the Strategic Road Network

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East Midlands Council Highways Agency Role in
Planning and the Strategic Road Network

• Aoife OToole
• Asset Manager, Highways Agency

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The Strategic Road Network (SRN)

• 4,338 route miles
• 39 motorway
• only 3 of roads
• but 33 of traffic
• and 66 of freight traffic

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The East Midlands Network

• 731 route miles
• 25 motorway
• 75 trunk roads
• Strategic national routes (M1, A14 and A1)
• Strategic Regional routes (A50, A38, A42, M69,
  A46, A52, A43 and A45)

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HA Roles

• Network Delivery and Development
• Asset Development Team
• Service Delivery Team

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East Midlands Current Major Schemes

• A46 Newark to Widmerpool (Completed)
• A453 Widening (started Jan 2013)
• M1 J28-31 Managed Motorways (start 2013/14)
• M1 J19/M6 Improvement (start 2013/14)
• A14 Kettering Bypass Improvement (start 2013/14

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East Midlands Current Pinch Point Schemes

• A38 Markeaton Junction
• A38 Little Eaton Junction
• M1 J24 junction improvement
• M1 J21 junction improvement
• A45 and A43 junction improvements
  (Northamptonshire)

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Also Wider Government Policy

• Economic Growth
• Environment
• Safety

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The Strategic Road Network and the Delivery of
Sustainable Development

• Sets out how the HA will work as a delivery
  partner to sustainable economic growth
• Infrastructure requirements expected to be
  identified at Local Plan level
• Development Management travel plans, demand
  management, capacity enhancement
• Assessment of proposals general approach,
  assessment horizon, access to SRN

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East Midlands Current Local Plan and
Development Management Activities

• Nottingham Aligned Core Strategies
• Derby Housing Market Area Core Strategies
• NE Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire Core
  Strategies
• Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (M1 J24)
• Strategic housing and employment sites

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The Future -

• Technology
• Customer Expectation
• Investment

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East Midlands Future Network Pressures

• M1 J23a J25 mainline
• M1 Junctions (e.g. J24, J28 and J21a)
• A38 at Derby
• A52 around Nottingham
• A46 at Newark
• M1 in Northamptonshire
• A45 in Northamptonshire

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The Future for the Highways Agency
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Key Changes Efficiency and Performance

• Improved Efficiency
• Procurement / Operations / Maintenance / Major
  Schemes
• Enhanced Performance Framework
• Improving Journeys by more effectively preventing
  delay and disruption around the network
• More Business Like Approach
• A new independent board aligned with commercial
  best practice