Ministry of Transport and successors, Highways Management and Services Division:...

MT 109

1929-1988

This series consists of files concerning the legal aspects of highways administration, and especially the administration of trunk roads. They relate to the provision of street lighting, the maintenance of cabling and bridges, claims for damages, the provision of compounds for the maintenance of trunk roads, private bills and byelaws affecting highways, licences to use highways land, highway law and obstructions to highways. Some of the files concern specific highways and areas. The series includes files re-registered from the HC, HD, HGP (otherwise in MT 120), HO, HT and WM series.

See also papers on highways in Wales in BD 43

HM Series

Public Record(s)

English

• Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Administration Division, 1953-1959
• Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Management and Services Division, 1957-1959
• Ministry of Transport, Highways Management and Services Division, 1959-1970

607 file(s)

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From 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Topics

Road Transport

Transport management

Series is accruing

The Highways Management and Services Division was set up in 1957 to deal with legal aspects of highways administration, working alongside existing divisions in the Highways Administration Group. It continued as a division throughout the re-organisations of the highways administration in the early 1960's, moving from Highways B Group to Highways and Traffic, Northern Group in 1961 and Lands and Contracts in 1963. The division was abolished in 1964 when its functions were divided between Highways Management Divisions and Highways Lands and Legal Division.

The Division dealt with public and private bills and subordinate legislation, highway law consolidation and legal problems arising from trunk road administration, and with claims by and against the Minister resulting from damage or accidents on, or in connection with, trunk roads. It negotiated agreements with local authorities to act as the Minister's agents for trunk roads, with the British Transport Commission for the maintenance and improvement of trunk road, railway and canal bridges, and with consultant engineers and architects for the preparation and supervision of major schemes for the construction and improvement of trunk roads. It was responsible for street lighting policy, including agreements with the lighting authorities for the lighting of trunk roads, for snow clearance and for general matters affecting the interests, duties and responsibilities of local highway authorities.