Highway standards

Guidance and services

• Highway standards
  Standards for the preparation, design and construction of motorways and trunk roads.
• Traffic signs and road markings
  The working drawings provide guidance for the design and manufacture of traffic signs.
• Co-ordination of road and street works: code of practice
  Street authorities follow this guidance to carry out their duty to coordinate works in the highway.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Road verges
  Policy and strategy
  Explains why verges are important and what is done to maintain them.
• Trunk road estate biodiversity action plan (TREBAP)
  Policy and strategy
  What we will do to support wildlife on and around the roads we maintain.
• National approach for road and street works
  Policy and strategy
  How we will minimise the delays caused by road and street works.