National Highways

National Highways, formerly the Highways Agency and later Highways England, is a government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England. It also sets highways standards used by all four UK administrations, through the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. Within England, it operates information services through the provision of on-road signage and its Traffic England website, provides traffic officers to deal with incidents on its network, and manages the delivery of improvement schemes to the network.

This article is about the highway authority in England. For other authorities in the United Kingdom, see Roads in the United Kingdom § Administration. For other uses, see National Highways (disambiguation).

National Highways Limited
FormerlyHighways England
(April 2015 – August 2021)
Highways Agency
(March 1994 – March 2015)
Company typeGovernment-owned company
IndustryHighway authority
Founded1 April 2015 (2015-04-01)
HeadquartersBridge House
1 Walnut Tree Close
Guildford
GU1 4LZ
Area served
England
(United Kingdom in road standards only)
Key people
Nick Harris
(CEO)
Dipesh J Shah OBE
(Chairman)
OwnerHM Government
Number of employees
4,700 (2018)
Websitenationalhighways.co.uk

Founded as an executive agency, it was converted into a government-owned company, Highways England, on 1 April 2015. As part of this transition, the UK government set out its vision for the future of the English strategic road network in its Road Investment Strategy. A second Road Investment Strategy was published in March 2020, with the company set to invest £27 billion between 2020 and 2025 to improve the network as described in the strategy. The current name was adopted on 19 August 2021.

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