The first highways legislation in England was the Statute of Winchester (1285) which defined the "King's Highway" between market towns.
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London has long been treated separately from the rest of the country in its local administration. This applies to highways,
The Traffic Management Act
Two statutory instruments are fundamental to the world of bus gates and PCNs:
LATOR 1996: sets out how local authorities make traffic orders and what they must do once they have been made;
TSRGD 2016: defines traffic signs which can be placed on the highway, where they can be placed and what conditions must be met to place them.
Each of these is merely the latest incarnation of a series of statutory instruments which go back through the twentieth century. They are subject to periodic amendments and will, no doubt, be superseded in time.
Written 28th October 2025; last updated 28th October 2025