Traffic management

We’ll have the necessary conversations with the highway authorities to work out whether traffic management is required and what form it will take. It might be that the works have to take place outside of busy traffic hours, at weekends or in the school holidays.

If drawings are requested we typically send them to highway authorities at least a week before our works are planned. If our application is rejected we work with the highway authority to resolve any issues, get permission and agree on a date for the work.

Major projects that require more complex traffic management follow the same principles, but it can take up to 12 weeks to get permission.

In extreme cases, where the traffic management is more complicated, we’ll discuss the requirements with you at an early stage.

We’ve fixed charges that include the relevant traffic management costs to cover the measures that are necessary to ensure safe working in or near the road and to minimise disruption for drivers and pedestrians:

• Traffic management drawings.
• Bus stop and parking bay suspensions.
• Traffic lights.
• Road or lane closures.
• Lane rental charges.

Charges will depend on whether the work is in a road, a footpath or in the unmade ground. There’s no charge if there’s no digging involved.