Clause 54 - Re-surfacing regulations and guidance
Traffic Management Bill
5:15 pm
Mr John Mann (Bassetlaw, Labour)
I have one question. Proposed new section 73D(2)(d) provides for the paying of sums of money in lieu of executing works. I wonder whether that will operate like the adoption of roads on new estates, which are usually rather unsatisfactory works.
My area has seen a series of disputes between builders and the highway authority over the works to be completed before the roads are adopted. Both parties seem to be satisfied that there is a sum of money on deposit, but they have not bothered to do anything about getting them adopted—or, in the most extreme case of Scrooby close, not completing them for 15 years. Several dozen other, similar, examples are current.