To ask Her Majesty’s Government how the strategic vision for the Road Investment Strategy will take account of the whole built environment.
Answered on
24 July 2014
The government’s vision for the Strategic Road Network (SRN) is part of the Road Investment Strategy. The importance of good design, and the use of good design principles, is important and the government will want the company to make use of these principles when intervening to maintain, renew, or enhance the SRN. The expectation on the company in how it delivers its functions is set out in the licence and through which the Secretary of State for Transport can influence the company’s behaviour. The licence already contains requirements to conform to the principles of sustainable development and to have regard to government policy. We are considering further how good design principles are built into the governance framework.