Who maintains our highways
In-house highways
The council’s in-house highways team is responsible for:
- Managing the highways network, including inspections and streetworks
- Asset management
- Contract management and commissioning
- Business planning and annual programmes of work
- Setting highways policy, strategy and direction
- Member and stakeholder engagement
- Highways community liaison and delivery
- Customer correspondence and communications
- Road safety
Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty Living Places is responsible for
- Routine and reactive maintenance
- Asset management
- Emergency and incident response
- Winter maintenance
- Planned and cyclical maintenance
- Street lighting
- Traffic signals and intelligent transport systems
- Highway improvement schemes
Atkins
Atkins is responsible for
- Design services (capital / renewals)
- Advisory services
- Site supervision
- Assessing and inspecting structures
- Transport strategy and modelling
- Business case development
- Data collection and analysis
- Stakeholder consultation
- Environment, ecology, geotech, conservation and archaeology
- Procurement, contract management and contract preparation