National Highways
Highway authority in England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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National Highways (NH), formerly the Highways Agency and later Highways England, is a government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England.[2] It also sets highways standards used by all four UK administrations, through the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. Within England, it operates information services through the provision of on-road signage and its Traffic England website, provides traffic officers to deal with incidents on its network, and manages the delivery of improvement schemes to the network.
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Company type | Government-owned company |
Industry | Highway authority |
Founded | 1 April 2015 (2015-04-01) |
Headquarters | Bridge House 1 Walnut Tree Close Guildford GU1 4LZ[1] |
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Owner | HM Government |
Number of employees | 4,700 (2018) |
Website | nationalhighways |
Founded as an executive agency, it was converted into a government-owned company, Highways England, on 1 April 2015. As part of this transition, the UK government set out its vision for the future of the English strategic road network in its Road Investment Strategy. A second Road Investment Strategy was published in March 2020, with the company set to invest £27 billion between 2020 and 2025 to improve the network as described in the strategy.[3] The current name was adopted on 19 August 2021.