285 Power of Minister and Greater London Council to execute in Greater London road improvements not involving widening
Highways Act 1980 (1980 c 66) | Legislation

285  Power of Minister and Greater London Council to execute in Greater London road improvements not involving widening

(1)     Subject to subsection (3) below, where [the Minister of Transport, after consultation with the highway authority, is] of the opinion that, with a view to facilitating the movement of traffic it is expedient for works to be executed for the improvement of a highway in Greater London to which this section applies, being works which the highway authority could execute and which do not involve the widening of the highway, then—

(a)     the highway authority shall, within 3 months of being notified of that fact, inform the Minister . . . whether they are prepared to undertake those works and, if so, within what time; and

(b)     if the Minister . . . at the expiration of the said 3 months [is] not satisfied that the highway authority will with reasonable dispatch undertake those works (or within the said 3 months [is] satisfied that they will not), the Minister . . . may execute those works or other works appearing to him . . . to secure the same or an equivalent improvement of the highway.

For the purposes of this subsection it is not

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