(iv) on a road adjacent to the temporary site of road, building or engineering works used for the movement of vehicles, materials, plant or equipment within the site of the works (for example where the signals control access and egress to the works). A code of practice, Measures necessary where apparatus is affected by major works (diversionary works), can be bought from TSO. 11.2.4 Private roads and prospective public roads are to be identified in the Associated Street Data sets of the SRWR. Check benefits and financial support you can get, Find out about the Energy Bills Support Scheme, Measures necessary where apparatus is affected by major works (diversionary works), How to reinstate a road after doing street works, Street works permit schemes: evaluation of effectiveness, The impact of street works lane rental charges, code of practice for the co-ordination of street works and works for road purposes and related matters, Higher charges for street works that overrun, Qualification requirements for people working on street works. Where possible, the placing and recording of underground apparatus should be in accordance with the RAUC(S) Advice Note 12. Regulation 10 revokes the 1992 Regulations as respects England, provides that these Regulations apply where notice of intention to execute major works is given on or after 15th January 2001 and that the 1992 Regulations continue to apply where such notice is given before that date. 0000002455 00000 n
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(2)After the diversionary works have been completed, the person to whom any sum by way of allowable costs is due (the creditor) shall issue to the person from whom the sum is due (the debtor) an account of the sum owing and within 35 days of that account having been issued. <>>>
6.2 Substantial Works for Road Purposes - Definition 6.3 Restriction Notices 6.4 Exemptions 6.5 Severable Works 6.6 Policy Guidance 6.7 Early Starts 6.8 Road Works Authority Consent to Works on Roads with Restrictions . 2010/1 (Advice Note No 2010 01). if those measures result in a betterment of the undertakers apparatus, a sum equal to the benefit which the undertaker gains as a result of the betterment, calculated in accordance with Appendix F to the Code; if those measures result in a postponement of the need to renew the undertakers apparatus, a sum determined in accordance with Appendix E to the Code. The procedure to be used by undertakers when applying to use portable light signals is detailed in RAUC(S) Advice Note 8 - Portable Light Signals. Transport, digital, energy and utility networks are vital for jobs, businesses, and economic growth. Diversionary works are works to reroute utility services. (a)in the case of major works consisting of major bridge works comprising a replacement of the bridge, not more than 10 years; (b)in the case of any other major works, not more than 5 years. DMRB: Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. The government wants to deliver an infrastructure revolution: a radical improvement in the quality of the UKs infrastructure to help level up the country, strengthen the Union, and put the UK on the path to net zero emissions by 2050. Completed in July 2021, 3. Review Group to deliver a task plan setting out process and review milestones, including target review and COP publish date. For works over 18 months, the advertising and publication must be done at least 21 days in advance of the start date and the aforementioned parties must be consulted along with the Scottish Government. 11.4.6 It is important that only the responsible undertaker, or a specialist contractor working on their behalf, investigates suspected damaged or defective Undertaker's apparatus. 11.3.8 In extraordinary circumstances the Road Traffic Act 1991 allows for the temporary suspension of designated on street parking places where this may assist the works. x]o6KhC_@vmmp{a$Nf;p.9(Kb(:s(~_~s{;87wf_OO/~ZeoE&D^?2/evh=oo|0
e~#t?d:oLE^k/2m*/T8Wn}v:*o/p~4?o~llf'N7t[jO6R The Order must be advertised and published in a local newspaper at least 7 days in advance of the start date. or 92.5 per cent. The road works authority is required to state in the "notice": The road works authority is then required to inform the police, fire and ambulance services and any adjacent road works authority that may be affected. 11.8.4 The Traffic Regulation Order imposing parking restrictions on a particular road should already contain an exemption allowing works to take place in a parking bay. Produce an electronic version of the existing code and together with the HAUC Advice note from 2010, circulate to the industry setting out the review plan and guiding all concerned to use the current document and asking for feed back from the industry as a way of getting buy in to the review and the desire to support the Infrastructure needs of the UK. 0000002240 00000 n
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11.4.4 Although NRSWA gives road works authorities certain powers to inspect and carry out emergency works, neither roads authorities or undertakers expect the need to arise. 11.1.2 Until there is the facility for all interested parties to exchange information electronically, existing arrangements should continue to ensure that information about apparatus is made available to works promoters. (2)Where the authority executes the diversionary works, the undertaker shall pay to the authority the sum which it would have had to pay under regulation 4 if the major works had been initiated by the authority. The Street Works Codes of Practice detail the workings of the legislation. (a)a licence under section 50 of the Act; (b)a consent under section 61 of the Act; (c)an agreement to house apparatus in a bridge structure; or. (3)Where the undertaker executes the diversionary works, the authority shall pay to the undertaker the sum which it would have had to pay under regulation 3 if the major works had been initiated by the authority. The principal change effected by the Regulations is that the undertakers share of the costs of diversionary works required in the case of certain major transport works is now 7.5 per cent. The Diversionary Works Code provides information on the needs of the various undertakers and promoting authorities when confronted with the possibility of having to divert or take some other action in regard to undertakers' apparatus. (2)For the purposes of this regulation betterment shall be determined in accordance with Appendix F to the Code. 11.3.6 It should be borne in mind that the road works authority must be informed of early re-opening of the road following a temporary notice or Order. Original (As Enacted or Made): The original version of the legislation as it stood when it was enacted or made. Alison is Streetworks Policy and Compliance Manager for Openreach, with 25 years of experience in the telecoms industry and 15 years specialising in street works. ff~;q:gWOs]
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the reason for the closure or restriction; Safety at Street Works and Road Works A Code of Practice, Measures Necessary where Apparatus is affected by Major Works (Diversionary Works), Reduction of Delays at Road Work - Code of Practice, HAUC(UK) Advice Note 2010/1 Diversionary Works. Transport, digital, energy and utility networks are vital for jobs, businesses, and economic growth. 7.(1)In a case where, under these Regulations, an undertaker is liable to make a payment to an authority or an authority is liable to make a payment to an undertaker in relation to diversionary works there shall be taken into account in favour of the authority. It is the first of its kind: rooted in the expert advice of the highly respected National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and responding to its ground-breaking 2018 assessment of the countrys infrastructure needs. If you submit a search and receive a request for payment there is no obligation to pay for it, however until the payment for the enquiry has been made you will not receive the requested asset information (plans). C1, C2, etc. They are works carried out to repair or improve the highway including footways, pavements and street lighting. 11.11. 7 0 obj
Basic site layouts are shown in the Code of Practice on Safety at Street Works and Road Works. There is no application fee but costs of diversions will be calculated in accordance with this Code. An Act to make provision for and in connection with the designation of traffic officers and their duties; to make provision in relation to the management of road networks; to make new provision for regulating the carrying out of works and other activities in the street; to amend Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and Parts 9 and 14 of the Highways Act 1980; to make new provision in relation to the civil enforcement of traffic contraventions; to amend section 55 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984; and for connected purposes. The current Code aims to stimulate thinking by all concerned to explore alternatives to diversion, and where diversion has to take place, to ensure that it is done in a disciplined way. Some of these cookies are essential to make our site work and others help us to improve by giving us some insight into how the site is being used. Please take care when defining your work search area in order to reduce affected responses on the Line Search Before You Dig website. endobj
A vehicle entirely within the coned-off area of the site may require a larger coned-off area than would otherwise be the case. 1991 c. 22. The Street Works Codes of Practice detail the workings of the legislation. 6 0 obj
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For these objectives to be achieved, there must be close co-operation and co-ordination between the promoting authority and undertaker and the need for this underpins all of the provisions of the Code. if the authority and the undertaker so agree in the case of diversionary works of an estimated duration of more than three months, by instalments of such amounts, payable at such times during the execution of the diversionary works, as the authority and the undertaker agree. 11.6.1 There are other publications which provide useful advice regarding the management of works in roads and which should also be taken into consideration when planning, co-ordinating and executing works. should contact . 378 49
(d)a direction to remove or change the position of apparatus, pursuant to section 62 of the Act. 11.2.1 Section 146 of NRSWA provides that where road works authorities are satisfied that a road in their area is likely to become a public road, they may make a declaration to that effect. 0000064253 00000 n
The Diversionary Works Code provides information on the needs of the various undertakers and promoting authorities when confronted with the possibility of having to divert or take some other action in regard to undertakers' apparatus. <<2C30B449E9FEAF42BCCB1C6E2BD3C35E>]>>
This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format. Such an order is commonly known as a Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO). News stories, speeches, letters and notices, Reports, analysis and official statistics, Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports. a sum equal to 7.5 per cent. We follow the process set out in the New Roads & Streetworks Act 1991 (NRSWA) and its code of practice. We use some essential cookies to make this website work. 0000003501 00000 n
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Street works and road works information for local authorities and statutory undertakers carrying out work on or under the street. Knowledge of Diversionary works code of practice and its application Ability to produce detailed industry-standard level of survey, installation and as-built documentation Understanding of long-distance fibre networks, Comsof Fibre PlanIT and GE Small world software Driving license NRSWA accreditation to supervisor level would be beneficial This site uses cookies to store information on your computer. 11.12.2 The Code of Practice for Penalties sets out the procedures to be used when road works authorities issue FPNs under NRSWA. 0000001276 00000 n
(3)If payments made by an authority under paragraph (1) exceed the relevant proportion of allowable costs specified in regulation 3(1)(a) or (b), the undertaker shall, within 35 days of the issue of the account referred to in paragraph (2), refund to the authority the amount of the excess. 11.1.1 It is important that adequate information is provided to all concerned about the location and nature of all relevant apparatus. an agreement to house apparatus in a bridge structure; or. Advanced Search (including Welsh legislation in Welsh language), the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy, lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item, confers power and blanket amendment details, links to related legislation and further information resources, the original print PDF of the as made version that was used for the print copy. In recent years Alison has been involved in a number of street and road works policy development groups including: Streetworks Policy & Compliance Manager - Openreach. The road works authority is required to state: The road works authority is then required to inform the police, fire and ambulance service and any other adjacent road work authority that may be affected. execution of road works, to co-operate with the road works authority and one another. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 85 and 104 are transferred, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. <>
You can change your cookie settings at any time. 3.(1)Where, because of major works initiated by an authority, an undertaker executes diversionary works, the authority shall pay to the undertaker. EH11 3XD. by an undertaker for the purposes of any such person. of the allowable costs of the diversionary works; (b)in other cases where payment is made in accordance with regulation 8(1), a sum equal to 82 per cent. 0000005634 00000 n
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The Code recommends model procedures for dealing with diversionary works from the early planning stages, (a)any sum recoverable from any person for whose purposes the diversionary works are executed, irrespective of whether or not such a sum is actually recovered from that person; (b)any sum which would have been recoverable from such a person were that person not the authority. in all other cases, a sum equal to 18 per cent. 0000065255 00000 n
2012 regulations outline that when utilities are planning works they must agree with the highway authority on how long it will reasonably take to complete them. HAUC(UK) initial review plan would be too: 1. Infrastructure is long-term. "the Code" means the Code of Practice entitled "Measures Necessary where Apparatus is affected by Major Works (Diversionary Works)" dated June 1992, and approved by the Secretary of. endobj
The written permission must give specific approval to the placing of signals at a particular site except: (i) where the signals are being operated and maintained by and under the regular supervision of a uniformed constable during the progress of a temporary scheme of traffic control; or, (ii) on a length of road along which there is no junction carrying vehicular traffic to and from it; and the width of the carriageway is temporarily restricted so as to carry one line of traffic; or, (iii) at a level crossing when work in relation to that crossing is being carried out; or. But they also have a profound impact on peoples daily lives. (2)For the purposes of these Regulations allowable costs means, in relation to diversionary works, the sum of all the reasonable costs incurred in executing them, except. by an authority on behalf of another person or by an authority other than in its capacity as such; or. The transport authority's requirements can be incorporated into the works promoter's contract documents. 4 0 obj
(as the case may be) of the allowable costs to the authority: regulation 4. You do not need to have a PayPal account as payments can be made using a credit or debit card through the PayPal website. The Street Works (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (the Order) as amended by The Street Works (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 forms the legislative framework within which DfI Roadscarries out these duties. The "Red Book" is the Code of Practice to help you to safely carry out signing, lighting and guarding of street works and road works on all highways and roads, except motorways and any dual carriageways with a speed limit of 50 mph or more. 0
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The current arrangements for requesting and providing apparatus information are described in more detail in RAUC(S) Advice Note 1. Well send you a link to a feedback form. 8.(1)For the purposes of regulation 3(1)(a) and (b) (including those provisions as applied by regulation 5) the authority may pay to the undertaker a sum equal to 75 per cent. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a The Street Works Inspector/ NRSWA Inspector will be carrying out systematic and ad hoc site inspections, investigations and surveys of street works, road works and highway licences in relation to the New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) and all other associated regulations and codes of practice relevant to highways legislation. Defective apparatus should be recorded in the SRWR. 0000066531 00000 n
This requires at least 7 days notice to be given for all works other than emergency and urgent works. Access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item from this tab. We warming welcome anyone who has an interest in getting involved in the taskforce. oJ8w!h4a^L4.u;OOn._% a0-7Ka,O@~X %g (;#}3V%k{is&@gH;8W4;(vr#`e. 9. This Strategy brings together the governments long-term goals with the short-term imperative to rebuild the economy following the COVID-19 pandemic.The Diversionary Works COP was first issued in June 1992 and has remain untouched since that date save for an industry advice note in 2010.Underpinning everything is the notion that diversion only takes place when operational and technical constraints demand it. stream
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provided for by the 1992 Regulations. (b)if the authority and the undertaker so agree in the case of diversionary works of an estimated duration of more than three months, by instalments of such amounts, payable at such times during the execution of the diversionary works, as the authority and the undertaker agree. (as appropriate) of the allowable costs, (a)in a single lump sum before the diversionary works begin; or. Diversionary works include the removal, alteration and protection of . This Strategy sets out the governments plans to deliver on this ambition. 11.4.7 Where the road works authority has opened the road or exposed an undertaker's apparatus in an emergency or in the circumstances described in paragraph 11.4.6, the undertaker will assist the road works authority by either jointly inspecting the problem to determine necessary remedial works or confirming approval for the road works authority to proceed. 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