Lane rental schemes: guidance for English local highway authorities

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Civil & Structural Supplement

Abstract

Provides guidance to English local highway authorities involved with establishing lane rental schemes. Covers: wider context; role of lane rental; objectives of lane rental schemes; charging policies; local consultation; governance; network coverage; traffic sensitive streets; lane rental considerations; streets eligible for lane rental; types of works; charges; application of surplus funds; systems; relationship between lane rental and permit schemes; dispute resolution; transitioning to lane rental; lane rental development, approval, variation and evaluation; apply to operate a lane rental scheme; cost benefit analysis; variation; congestion; and legislative background.

History

Last updated: 17 December 2025. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/street-works-lane-rental/lane-rental-schemes-guidance-for-english-highway-authorities and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 26 January 2012.

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The Department for Transport is a UK Government department that provides leadership across the transport sector to achieve its objectives, working with regional, local and private sector partners to deliver many of the services. These activities were formerly carried out by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.


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