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Service for local highway authorities, utility companies or contractors within England to plan, manage and record street and road works.
Information on the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR).
How utility companies and highway authorities can safely carry out the signing, lighting and guarding of street works and road works on all highways and roads.
Guidance on how to apply for a stopping up order to remove highway rights to permanently close or divert a highway, including example plans.
Sets out the conditions that may be attached to street works permit schemes by highway authorities.
Find and use roadworks data for England.
The standards for reinstating streets after completing street works.
Code of practice for local authorities who have a duty to co-ordinate works in the highway, and for undertakers on how to co-operate in the process.
Statutory guidance that highway authorities must follow if they want to introduce, operate or vary a permit scheme for street works.
Guidance for English local highway authorities on developing proposals to operate a lane rental scheme.
This section provides guidance for communications network providers on legislation, regulation, working with local authorities and with property developers.
Code of practice for highway authorities on how to carry out inspections of street works.
Good practice for highway authorities issuing licences under section 50 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (NRSWA).
How street works qualifications affect operatives and supervisors in England.
Form for local highway authorities in England to apply for a lane rental scheme.
How to apply for a Street Works Act (SWA) code to carry out streetworks.
Highways England process for liaison with LHAs.
How can the local planning authority support the rollout of fixed and mobile networks at the local level?
Standards and guidance on using road plates to cover excavations and reduce congestion at roadworks.
Notice of period for filing claims between 28th March 2024 and 27th March 2030 for land depreciation as a result of the M56 J6-8 Smart Motorway scheme.
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