Threads / Street Works Regulation / Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds
Consultation Outcome Published 20 Dec 2024 Department for Transport ↗ View on GOV.UK

Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds

Seeks views on proposals for reforms to street works legislation covering surplus lane rental funds, fixed penalty notices and weekend overruns.

Opened 15 Jan 2023
Closed 11 Mar 2024
▤ Verbatim text from source document

This consultation presents a series of reforms to street works regulations, which include:

  • requiring at least 50% of any surplus lane rental funds to be spent on repairing potholes
  • raising the level of fixed penalty notices that can be issued for 5 street works offences
  • allowing overrun charges to apply at weekends and bank holidays