Guide to Highway Law for Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Contractors

This book provides practical guidance from the maintenance and improvements of highways to activities related to construction work on or near highways.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part 1: Introduction. Meaning of highway. Types of highways. Highways legislation. The Highways Act 1980. Administration of the Acts. Other Acts of Parliament. Highway authorities. Classification of highways. Part 2: Rights of adjacent owners. Miscellaneous rights. Obligations of adjacent owners. Remedies for public nuisance. Rights of the public. Limitations of the rights of the public. Access. Carriage crossings. Stopping up a means of access. Stopping up, diversion and extinguishing highways. Protection of highways. Part 3: Activities related to construction work on or near to the highway. Builders skips. Hoardings. Scaffolding. Lines. Part 4: Making up new streets. New streets. Town and country planning. Enforcement. Private street works code. Advance payments code. Agreement under section 38. Private roads. Adoption of streets. Serving notices. Part 5: Civil liability. Part 6: Short case studies. Appendices.

R. A. O'Hara