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Respecting the Environment

How the Highways Agency cares for our environment

Protecting and enhancing the environment is an increasingly important role for the Highways Agency. We have a number of environment targets for 2007-08 relating to water quality, biodiversity, landscape, noise, and air quality (which contributes to the delivery of the Department’s PSA target for air quality).

We have a long-established record of balancing the need to develop and operate the strategic road network with our responsibilities to neighbouring communities and the wider environment. The environment is one of the three key pillars of sustainability, alongside society and economic performance.

We own 30,000 hectares of land next to our roads and 14,000 of those hectares are planted with trees and shrubs. We plant to achieve landscape integration and bio-diversity benefits.

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