Street and road works
Listen- Introduction
- Highway network management
- Notification and inspection of street works
- Roadworks finder
Utility companies and highway authorities need to complete works on the highway in order to provide and maintain a safe highway network and essential services such as gas, water, telecommunications and electricity. Our Highway Network Management Team co-ordinates and monitors all these activities in a proactive, impartial and consistent manner to ensure disruption is minimised and works sites are safe.
The Traffic Management Act 2004 placed a duty upon local traffic authorities known as the network management duty. The aims of this duty include:
- securing the expeditious movement of traffic on the authority’s road network; and
- facilitating the expeditious movement of traffic on the road networks for which another authority is the traffic authority.
Our traffic manager and the team co-ordinate and manage all activities on the highway network that have a significant effect on the flow of traffic. When balancing competing needs for highway occupation, all types of traffic are taken into consideration: motor vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and even equestrians.
Notification and inspection of street works
Utilities are legally known as statutory undertakers because they have a statutory right to carry out street works and are responsible for their own works. They must however notify the council of their intentions to complete works and they do so via a system called EToN (Electronic Transfer of Notices). For licensees who do not have access to an EToN system interface application forms are available for this purpose.
The council has an obligation to co-ordinate those works as well as those of the highway authority. The council does have some powers regarding co-ordinating works but they must be applied in a fair and equitable manner.
We also inspect and monitor street and road works to ensure that prompt completion is not achieved at the expense of safety and quality of work. We have powers available under the New Roads & Street Works Act 1991 to direct and control utility activities and these powers will also be used on highway authority activities to ensure parity of treatment.
If you have concerns regarding the safety or duration of street or road works please let us know by using the contact details on the right-hand side of this page.
The Elgin roadworks finder website gives information about the location of roadworks and other notifiable highway events. It is based on the award winning Empress specification. If you have any comments concerning this website please contact us using the details on the right.
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