Quantifying Your Section 74 Overstay Recovery Gap
Section 74 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 lets you charge undertakers for occupying the highway beyond their agreed permit duration.
In practice, most authorities don’t recover anywhere near the full amount they’re entitled to.
Overstays go unflagged, charges go uninvoiced, and the liability that should be funding your network sits uncollected.
This estimator enables you to model:
• Total annual Section 74 overstay liability across your network
• How much of that you’re likely recovering today
• The revenue currently going unclaimed
GEO.works · Overstay penalty calculator
1. Overstay charge liability
Your authority’s charge band for the road category most of these works sit on.
2. Current recovery rate
Most authorities without systematic overstay tracking recover well under half of what they’re entitled to.
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