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Highway Policy Overview

Meeting: 14/09/2010 - Environment and Prosperity Scrutiny Committee (Item 30)

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To give consideration to the timetable for the review of the highway maintenance policies

Minutes:

The Committee received a report highlighting that the Highways Service had a number of policies, inherited from Cheshire County Council as predecessor Highway Authority, which governed the provision of highway maintenance activities within the Authority. It would be necessary to review these policies to take account of legislative changes, best practice and technological advances to ensure all policies were robust and workable and deliver best value on behalf of the Authority, whilst embracing the requirement to provide a safe, accessible highway network. The Committee gave consideration to the proposed timetable for the review of the existing policies and agreed that it would give consideration to the following policies prior to them being submitted to the Portfolio Holder/Cabinet for approval:

 

Grass Cutting                                   

Highway Lighting

Hedge and Tree maintenance        

Obstructions on the Highway

Highway Weed Control                   

Highway Sponsorship

Highway Drainage/Gully Emptying

Traffic Sign Management

Winter Service                                  

Repair to Private Streets

Speed Management Strategy        

Memorials on the Highway

Highway Defects – S58                  

Pedestrian Crossings

Highway Structural Maintenance    

Highway Sweeping

Maintenance of Road Markings, Studs, Guardrails and Barriers

 

 

RESOLVED

 

That, when appropriate, the above polices be considered at special meetings of the Committee.