14.  TfN may not exercise the function in section 24(2) of the Highways Act 1980 to construct a new highway unless the manner in which it proposes to exercise the function has been approved by—

(a)each council, within the meaning of section 329(1) of that Act, through whose area the highway is to pass,

(b)the person who is proposed to be the highway authority for the highway (if not a council within the meaning of section 329(1)),

(c)the highway authority for any highway with which the new highway will communicate (if not a council within the meaning of section 329(1)), and

(d)the Secretary of State.