Better Transport

The fist step when campaigning to stop a road is to know whether the road is being proposed by the Highways Agency or your local authority, because processes and campaign actions will differ.

If you're not sure which type of road you're fighting:

• Visit the Highways Agency website, because the agency has a separate web page for each scheme, and its search engine is pretty easy to use.  As well, Annex 4 of the Highways Agency's 2006/07 business plan (39K pdf) tells you the national and regional Highways Agency schemes and outlines expected progress on the schemes. When the business plan was written, the roadbuilding plan was called TPI (Targetted Programme of Improvements)
• Contact your local authority (county council or unitary authority). If your road is a local authority scheme, your council should have clear information about the scheme on its website (Local authority details are online)
• See if your local newspaper’s reports of the road make it clear what sort of road scheme it is
• A web search may bring up a group fighting the  scheme
• We might be familiar with the proposal. Just contact us and we’ll try to help

Be aware that road schemes go by many different names and something that is known locally as the Sometown Bypass might actually be called the Sometown Integrated Sustainable Transport Package on all official websites!