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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.
Sets out the conditions that may be attached to street works permit schemes by highway authorities.
The statutory guidance highway authorities must follow if they want to develop, vary or operate a permit scheme for street works.
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.
How to apply for a Street Works Act (SWA) code to carry out streetworks.
Guidance for English local highway authorities on developing proposals to operate a lane rental scheme.
How street works qualifications affect operatives and supervisors in England.
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).
Notice of period for filing claims between 5 May 2024 and 4 May 2030 for land depreciation as a result of the A46 Alcester Road, Stratford scheme.
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.
Information on using coring and vacuum extraction to open the road and repair buried equipment faster and more cost-effectively than conventional methods.
How to use hydraulically bound mixtures in the subbase and base layers of road reinstatements and their environmental advantages.
Different mapping techniques for quickly locating and identifying buried pipes and cables to be able to reduce congestion at road works.
This section provides guidance for communications network providers on legislation, regulation, working with local authorities and with property developers.
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