Consultations

Here you’ll find all our consultations, both open and concluded, past policy, licence and access casework consultations. You’ll also find our response to consultations from other organisations.

Review of arrangements for establishing access charges for control period 4 (CP4)

13 January 2014
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Start date: 25 November 2009 End date: 28 January 2010 In November 2009, we started a review of arrangements for establishing track access charges for CP4 by writing to the industry and consulting on these arrangements. We have now concluded on this consultation and the conclusions are set out in Periodic Review 2013 first consultation annexes, that were published on 25 May 2011. The conclusions

Changing our penalties statement

13 January 2014
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Reference: ORR/004/2012 Date published : 14 May 2012 Start date: 14 May 2012 Closing date: 11 June 2012 We consulted on some changes to our penalties policy, in light of the comments we received from our previous 'role of the regulator' consultation (December 2011). These changes will give us more flexibility to consider accepting commitments to make improvements for passengers as an alternative

ORR's regulation of land disposals by Network Rail

13 January 2014
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Reference: ORR/012/2012 Date published: 3 December 2012 Start date: 3 December 2012 Closing date: 18 January 2013 We have asked for views on how the arrangements for regulating with Network Rail's land disposals have worked in practice over the last two years and to propose some further improvements. We last revised our arrangements in October 2010, at the same time as the rail value for money

The first consultation by ORR on the 2014 periodic review of HS1 Ltd (PR14)

13 January 2014
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Reference: ORR/003/2013 Date published: 19 February 2013 Start date: 19 February 2013 Closing date: 16 April 2013 The concession agreement , a contract between High Speed 1 (HS1) Limited, which owns and operates the HS1 network, and the secretary of state for transport, sets out the purpose, and in general terms, the process for conducting periodic reviews. The concession agreement sets out ORR's

Changes to Network Rail's licence

13 January 2014
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Date published: 15 November 2013 Closing date: 12 December 2013 This was a formal statutory consultation on our updated proposed changes to conditions in Network Rail's network licence . The changes are mainly to clarify, streamline and simplify obligations. Subject to this consultation and Network Rail's consent, we intend to make the changes proposed no later than 1 April 2014. This consultation