Guidance: Street works lane rental charges

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March 17

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This guidance sets out what local highway authorities need to do if they wish to develop proposals and apply to operate a lane rental scheme.

A lane rental scheme allows a local highway authority to charge works promoters for the time that street and road works occupy the highway. Charges are focused on the very busiest streets at the busiest times. Charges apply to works promoted by both utility companies and local highway authorities on the local road network.

The power for local highway authorities to implement and operate a lane rental scheme in England is subject to approval by the Secretary of State for Transport.

Published 26 January 2012
Last updated 17 March 2024 +show all updates

17 March 2024
Updated guidance to support the uptake of lane rental. Includes advice on joint lane rental schemes and revised cost-benefit analysis requirements.
9 July 2021
The following changes have been made to the guidance. 1. Clarification of the parity principle. 2. Alterations to cost-benefit analysis calculation questions to ensure better results. 3. Additions that authorities must seek their own legal advice should they wish to impose lane rental charges and that more time in the application process may be required should revisions to the scheme be required. 4. Clarification that authorities will have to set out the limits of variations to their scheme within the application and scheme documents.
20 July 2019
Guidance changed so that surplus lane rental revenue can be spent on repairing pot holes caused by utility street works'.
27 September 2018
Error corrected: calculator updated to fix a problem displaying the associated consumer and business benefits for each local authority.
2 September 2018
Street works lane rental guidance updated for 2018 and calculator released.
26 January 2012
First published.

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