
Nikki Latham
Regulator Reports South West Notifies Two-Thirds Of Road Work Closures Correctly
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), independent monitor of National Highways, earlier this month published Benchmarking National Highways report outlining the regional differences in performance across National Highways motorways and major A roads in England.

The ORR are driving the need for more transparency and data to be published, and as such National Highways has increased the number of performance indicators the company makes public at a regional level from just 5 in 2019/20 to 22 in 2020/21. The new indicators include safety for all, and delivering environmental outcomes. This new data has been published in the report.
In one of the new indicators, ORR saw significant differences across England in the accuracy and timeliness in the notification of overnight road closures. National Highways, is tasked with enduring that, nationally, 90% of overnight closures are published, seven days in advance by 2024/25, the company only achieved 55% in 2020/21. The ORR found in the South West area, it was slightly higher at 64% of closures being reported correctly.
