Summary and Overview of the Act Part 5 .Highways and Roads
13.Part 5 includes specific measures that alter the arrangements for traffic management in London. These include provisions for the Secretary of State to designate an initial network of strategic roads (and for changes to that network to be made by the Assembly or the Mayor of London acting on its behalf). The purpose of designating this network is to enhance Transport for London’s (TfL's) powers in relation to Borough roads by enabling it to object to proposals that would affect strategic roads.
14.The Act also amends the Highways Act 1980, most notably to provide for regulations to apply 'lane rental’ charges to skips, scaffolding, building materials and temporary excavations that occupy the highway.