Unadopted Roads
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average time taken was for a local authority to adopt a road in each local authority in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood
The Department does not hold this information. Adoption of roads that are not maintainable at public expense is a matter for the relevant local highway authority, and the Department does not typically intervene in such matters. The Department provides advice to developers and highway authorities on the process, which can be found on gov.uk at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-of-roads-by-highway-authorities.
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