The East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Interchange and Highway Order 2016

Road Safety Audits

27.—(1) At any time during the detailed design stages the director may require that an interim Road Safety Audit be carried out in accordance with the Highways Agency Standard HD 19/15 and be submitted to the director and if so required by the director any recommendations in such interim report must be implemented to the director’s satisfaction.

(2) Prior to the approval of the detailed design information for a phase, a Stage 2 Road Safety Audit must be carried out in respect of that phase in accordance with the Highways Agency Standard HD 19/15 or any replacement or modification of that Standard and must be submitted to the director and if so required by the director any recommendations made in the Stage 2 report must be implemented to the director’s satisfaction.

(3) Prior to the issue of the provisional certificate in respect of a phase, a Stage 3 Road Safety Audit must be carried out for that phase in accordance with the Highways Agency Standard HD 19/15 and must be submitted to the director and if so required by the director any recommendations made in the Stage 3 report must be implemented to the director’s satisfaction.

(4) A Stage 4 12-month monitoring Report (“the 12-month report”) carried out in accordance with the Highways Agency Standard HD 19/15 in respect of each phase of the highway works must be submitted to the director no sooner than 8 weeks and no later than 12 weeks from the date when a complete year of accident data is available following the first anniversary of the opening of that phase for public use and if so required by the director any recommendations made in the 12-month report must be implemented to the director’s satisfaction.

(5) Following receipt of the 12-month report in respect of a phase the director may require that a Stage 4 36-month monitoring report (“the 36-month report”) be submitted for that phase in accordance with the Highways Agency Standard HD 19/15 no sooner than 8 weeks and no later than 12 weeks from the date when three complete years of accident data is available following the third anniversary of the opening of that phase of the highway works for public use and if so required by the director any recommendations in the 36-month report must be implemented to the satisfaction of the director and the undertaker must secure by the deposit of a bond with the highway authority a sum equivalent to the director’s reasonable estimate of the cost of the potential liability of the undertaker in respect of works arising from the 36-month report prior to the issue of the final certificate.