Street and Road Works
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. The Council’s 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 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.
1. Location of roadworks - not all roadworks are currently positioned accurately.
Please note that the information is supplied by utility companies and local authorities. New legislation now requires location details with the exact map grid reference, however, not all software systems are fully capable of sending this information at the moment. We anticipate that this problem will be resolved by the end of 2008.
2. Completeness of information - not all roadworks on the highway are included
Utility companies are required to provide notices of roadworks to the local highway authority before work starts. Local highway authorities are working towards including their own planned roadworks but currently these are not all included.
The Traffic Management Act 2004 placed a new duty upon local traffic authorities known as the Network Management Duty. The Council has created the Highway Network Management Team to achieve the aim of the new duty which includes:
- 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.
The team has a Traffic Manager and it co-ordinates and manages 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.
Utilities are legally know as Statutory Undertakers because they have a statutory right to carry out street works and are responsible for their own works. They do however, have an obligation to notify the Council of their intentions to complete works and 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.
Another function of managing activities on the highway is to inspect and monitor street and road works to ensure that prompt completion is not achieved at the expense of safety and quality of work. The team has 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.
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