Buckinghamshire Highways Resilient Network Plan 2025

The process of developing a Resilient Network meant identifying and prioritising a number of factors essential to everyday life in Buckinghamshire. These included:

• Connectivity between major communities,
• Links to the strategic highway network,
• Connectivity across authority boundaries,
• Links to transport interchanges,
• Access to emergency facilities including Fire and Rescue, Police, Ambulance

Services and Hospitals,

• Principal public transport routes,
• Critical infrastructure such as water treatment works and power distribution sites,
• Road classification,
• Traffic flows,
• Winter maintenance routes,
• Education facilities,
• Community services,
• Council operational sites.

The identification of these factors is in line with the recommendations within the ‘UKRLG Well Managed Highway Infrastructure – A Code of Practice’ published in October 2016, as well as the recommendations within the DfT Transport Resilience Review published July 2014.

The DfT and UKRLG guidance proposes that the Resilient Network makes up a very small percentage of the overall highway network, as the larger a network is, the more thinly spread any resources must be. Due to this, the Resilient Network is analogous with our Snow Routes, which make up a smaller sub-set than the Winter Routes used for normal Winter Service.