Planning roadworks
As the Highway Authority for nearly all public roads and footpaths in the County of Lincolnshire, we want to ensure roadworks are well planned and managed to minimise the disruption to all users of the roads and footpaths. Therefore we want to encourage you to work with us by ensuring traffic is managed as efficiently as possible and reducing the time working in the public road or footpath to one single event. This will benefit both of us in the following ways:
- You will finish your works safely and sooner.
- We will have traffic flow returned to normal sooner.
- You will save costs with reduced time and fewer defects to repair.
- We will have a safe road or footpath for users to travel along.
- Our working relationship will become stronger.
- Our relationship with the community will be strengthened.
What we need from you
To achieve the benefits above you shall produce a works programme which shall include:
- Details of proposed new roads and footpaths joining the public road or footpath.
- Details of public road or footpath improvements.
- Utility network connections or diversions such as gas, water, electricity etc.
- Reinforcement to utility networks.
- Details of temporary works.
- Traffic management plan.
- Expected duration.
- Risk register – identifying risks to duration and extent of the work.
What we provide to you
When we have received your works programme we shall assist you with the following:
- Advise you on managing the traffic.
- Provide you with provisional dates to work in the public road or footpath.
- Encourage collaboration with you and other third party works in the same location.
- Attend meetings with you and utility service providers.
- Assist in delays or issues with utility network connections.
- Provide information for onsite notice boards.
Working together
It is important we work together and you liaise with us and utility service providers to ensure orders are placed in good time to enable one or both of the following:
- Collaborative works – where multiple parties work in the same area benefitting from trench sharing or the same traffic management setup.
- Consecutive works – where multiple parties work consecutively one after the other without delay using the same traffic management setup.