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The Project Control Framework
This framework sets out how we, together with the Department for Transport, manage and deliver major road improvement projects.
The New Deal Detrunking Programme
Background
During the Roads Review in 1997-98, a comprehensive review of the existing strategic road network was undertaken. Most of the network was identified as being of clear national significance and should therefore remain the responsibility of the Highways Agency. These roads were termed the "core network". There were a number of other trunk roads that the review considered to mainly serve local and regional traffic and would be more appropriately managed by the local highway authority. These roads were therefore proposed for detrunking and included within the New Deal Detrunking Programme, and classified as the "non-core network".
The policy of detrunking was first set out in the White Paper "A New Deal for Transport", published in July 1998. It involved transferring up to 3,200 km (about 30% of trunk road network at April 1999) of non-core routes from Highways Agency control to local highways authority control.
The programme was designed to allow the Highways Agency to concentrate on the operation of a strategic road network that links the main centres of population and major transport hubs; and to allow local highway authorities to set priorities for routes that primarily serve local needs, and to integrate them with local land use planning and local transport plans.
The New Deal Detrunking programme was concluded at 31 March 2009. All routes now remaining within the strategic road network are now core and as such there is no longer a need to differentiate between core and non-core routes.
