Roads

Area	Responsibility/Interest	County	District/Bor'h	Parish/Town	Other Agency	County/District Council has statutory responsibilities?
Roads	Strategic Planning	*			Highways Agency/SEERA	*
Roads	Planning, building and management of major roads and motorways (1)	*			Highways Agency	*
Roads	Planning, building and management of local roads (2)	*				*
Roads	Roads maintenance (3)	*			Highways Agency	*
Roads	Transportation planning (4)	*	*			*
Roads	Traffic calming	*				*
Roads	Road Safety	*	*	*
Roads	Developer funded improvements (Section 278)	*	*	*		*
Roads	School Travel Plans/Safer Routes to School	*	*	*		*
Roads	Winter salting	*				*
Roads	Street cleansing		*
Roads	Overgrown hedges and verges (7)	*	*		Highways Agency/road owner	*

Comments

1. On behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport, the Highways Agency maintains the strategic rail network and is responsible for improvements/extensions to it.  On major transportation schemes > £5m, investigate and bid to Government for funding.

2. County Council is the Highways Authority.

3. Highways Agency responsible for trunk roads and motorways.

4. Some highways functions are undertaken by district councils on an agency basis (paid by county councils).  Local Transport Plan Aims to improve liaison between the many different organisations involved in transport, involving local communities, businesses and transport providers; outlines ten year investment programme of transport infrastructure and services.

5. Highways Agency (major roads) or County Council as Highway Authority (other roads) is responsible if hedge - or any other obstruction - is encroaching upon the highway.  Some parish and town councils assist the County Council by serving hedge cutting notices on its behalf.   In urban areas, verges normally maintained by district council on County Council’s behalf (because maintenance of vegetation in other public places is the responsibility of district councils and it makes sense not to double up on arrangements for similar work).