A-Z Guide to Highway Related Services

We have designed this website to tell you who provides highways related services, who to contact and how to contact them. we hope you find it both interesting and useful and would encourage you to contact the appropriate person/organisation if you are aware of a highway related problem.

To learn more about a particular service - click on the service title in the A-Z list below.

Abnormal loads		Rights of way (paths and stiles)
Accident prevention schemes		Road adoption
Accidents		Road chippings
Application Forms		Road cleaning
Biodiversity Action Plan		Road closures
Bird Nesting Season		Road obstructions
Bridges		Road repairs and maintenance
Bridleways		Road and paths – new
Bus shelters		Road safety education
Bus timetables		Road markings
Cameras (speed, red light and safety)		Road sweeping
Canal towpaths		Roadworks
Car parks		Safe routes to schools
Community transport		Salting/salt bins/dumps
Crossing (road)		Scaffolding & Hoarding
Culverts		School transport
Cycle training		School warning lights
Dead animals		Signs – facing wrong way
Debris, litter (obstructions)		Signs – broken, missing damaged
Disabled access		Signs – hidden by hedges
Disabled parking		Signs – maintenance
Ditches		Signs - request for new
Diversions		Signs - Tourism
Dog fouling		Skips on the highway
Drainage of highways		Snow ploughing
Dumped rubbish		Speed cameras
Flooded roads		Speed humps
Fly tipping		Speed limits
Gateways (traffic calming)		Street lighting
Graffiti		Street lighting faults
Gully emptying		Street cleaning/sweeping
Gypsies and travellers		Street furniture
Hedges/trees/overgrowth		Street name signs
Highways inspections		Surface dressing
Highways lighting		Traffic calming
Highways planning		Traffic lights and traffic signals
Ice		Traffic regulation orders
Illuminated signs		Transport studies
Kerbs		Travellers
Licences		Tree protection
Litter		Trees fallen on highway
Local safety schemes		Trees – overhanging highway
Local transport plan		Trunk roads (a303T A36)
Manhole covers – broken		Unadopted roads
Mirrors on the highway		Utility companies
Motorway – M5		Vehicles – abandoned
Mud on roads		Vehicle Access (Dropped Kerbs)
Overhanging bushes/trees		Verge cutting
Parking restrictions		Village Nameplates
Pavements (cracks, loose slabs)		Walls (supporting the highway)
Pedestrian crossing facilities		Walks (district)
Potholes		Walks (parish)
Public transport		Waterlogged roads
Puddles		Weighbridges
Ragwort in road verges		Weight Limits
Railway/level crossings		Winter gritting and snow clearance
Resurfacing		Zebra crossings

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