Roads and highways

The Highway Management Group is responsible for

  • Maintaining the public highway network in a safe condition.
  • Maintaining records on the condition of the public highway and investigating third party insurance claims.
  • Co-ordinating the work of Utility companies on the highway.
  • Supervising developers constructing new roads for adoption.
  • Supervising the construction of new schemes designed by the Transport Planning sections of the Council.
  • Providing a 'client' function for public conveniences, street trees and the Council's cleansing service.
  • Maintaining and improving the Borough's street lighting.
  • Carrying out routine inspections and maintenance of publicly maintained bridges and retaining walls.
  • Undertaking structural checking of designs submitted to the Planning Department.

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The services we provide are grouped into the following areas:

Network management

  • Co-ordination of work on the public highway. View current streetworks.
  • Maintenance of the register of adopted roads.
  • Network condition survey.
  • Inspection of statutory undertakers works following works carried out on the public highway
  • Monitoring Streetworks in progress ensuring compliance with Health and Safety
  • Reporting all defective apparatus which are the responsibility of statuary undertakers
  • Asset Management Adoptions of Highways

Inspection and compliance

  • Monitor street cleansing.
  • Routine highway inspections.
  • Enforcement of highway legislation.

Highway construction

  • Supervise Council's contractors.
  • Inspect new work being undertaken by developers.
  • Co-ordinate the programme of maintenance works.

Street lighting

  • Highway street lighting maintenance.
  • Design street lighting improvement schemes.
  • Supervise street lighting construction.
  • Provide lighting advice to other departments.

Structural engineering

  • Inspect and maintain public structures on the highway, including retaining walls and bridges
  • Check structural calculations for planning and building control applications.
  • Advise other departments on structural matters.

For further information, advice and any queries please contact the Highway Management Group

Highways planned maintenance 2010/11: Section 31 grant funding

Cabinet agreed the Council’s 2010/11 planned highways maintenance programme at its July meeting. The programme totalled £2.161m and included £104,000 Section 31 Grant (Emergency Fund Winter Damage 2010/11) allocated to the Council by the Department of Transport.

This Grant was used specifically for permanent pothole patching repairs to carriageways over the period April-June 2010 with repairs being carried out to approximately 1550 potholes across the borough.

The Council’s Planned Highways Maintenance Programme will continue throughout 2010/11 with details available from the Cabinet report referred to above and on the Road Works web page on this site.