s 5 General duties
(1) A strategic highways company must, in exercising its functions, co-operate in so far as reasonably practicable with other persons exercising functions which relate to— (a) highways, or (b) planning. (2) A strategic highways company must also, in exercising its functions, have regard to the effect of the exercise of those functions on— (a) the environment, and (b) the safety of users of highways.