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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.
Find and use roadworks data for England.
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.
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.
Guidance for English local highway authorities on developing proposals to operate a lane rental scheme.
The standards for reinstating streets after completing street works.
How to apply for a Street Works Act (SWA) code to carry out streetworks.
Code of practice for highway authorities on how to carry out inspections of street works.
This section provides guidance for communications network providers on legislation, regulation, working with local authorities and with property developers.
How street works qualifications affect operatives and supervisors in England.
Good practice for highway authorities issuing licences under section 50 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (NRSWA).
Highways England process for liaison with LHAs.
Standards and guidance on using road plates to cover excavations and reduce congestion at roadworks.
How can the local planning authority support the rollout of fixed and mobile networks at the local level?
What to take into account when considering extended working hours at road works, including acceptable conditions and planning.
How English local highway authorities can develop proposals to operate lane rental schemes to charge those carrying out street works.
Information on using coring and vacuum extraction to open the road and repair buried equipment faster and more cost-effectively than conventional methods.
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