Content tagged with: highways

• Apply for it: Road markings

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/doitonline/road-markings

  To request road markings and report on worn road markings.

• Adopted Highway Register

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/adopted-highway-register

  For information regarding public highways within Doncaster and how to view the Highways Register.

• Highways programme of works

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/highways-programme-of-works

  Doncaster Council deliver a wide range of work on the public highway, both planned scheme work and reactive maintenance work. Details of our planned maintenance programmes can be found here.

• Highway Obstructions - Pavements, Roads

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/highway-obstructions-pavements-roads

  Roadworks, skips, scaffolding, hoardings and building materials that block the pavement all cause an obstruction to pedestrians

• Roads and pavements

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/roads-and-pavements

  The council is responsible for maintaining the roads (technically known as 'carriageways') and pavements (known as 'footways') of adopted highways within the borough.

• Creation of New Public Highways (Section 38 Agreement)

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/creation-of-new-public-highways-section-38-agreement

  An agreement under Section 38 of the Highways Act 1980 can be used where an applicant proposes to construct a new estate road for residential, industrial or general purpose traffic as the legal means by which the road becomes a public highway.

• Section 171 - Licence to deposit building materials or excavate in the street

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/licence-to-deposit-building-materials-excavate-in-the-street

  To place building materials and/or to make an excavation on any part of the highway a licence must be obtained from the Council

• Licence for Streetworks (Section 50 licence)

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/licence-for-street-works-aka-section-50-licence

  Any person or organisation wishing to excavate in the public highway not being a statutory undertaker must obtain a licence under Section 50 of the New Roads and Streetworks Act 1991

• Licence for skip operators

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/licence-for-skip-operators

  To place a skip on the highway, without first applying for and being granted a licence, is an offence under The Highways Act 1980 and may result in prosecution

• Department for Transport- additional funding

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/transport-streets-parking/department-for-transport-additional-funding

  Additional funding provided by the Department for Transport