Local highways offices
How to contact us
Staff based in our highway offices can answer your questions about roads or pavements.
Local area highway offices map
What we do
We are responsible for:
- all general aspects of highway maintenance such as grass cutting, gulley emptying and repairing potholes
- routine inspections of all roads and footways
- highway improvement schemes
- 24 hour response to emergencies that affect the highway (flooding, fallen trees, oil spills etc)
- winter salting/gritting and snow clearance
- temporary traffic orders, including road closures
- control and co-ordination of work by utility companies such as gas, water and electricity
- licensing of skips, scaffolding, hoardings etc on the highway
- enforcement action against encroachments, obstructions and other unlawful activities
- highway signing and lining
- local traffic management, such as traffic calming schemes
- adoption of new roads and footways
- maintenance of wildlife verges.
