Planning and Transport

Planning and Transport

Traffic planning for Glastonbury festival, responding to flood events, facilitating housing and economic growth, establishing a pathway to decarbonisation, and developing innovative approaches to urban and rural transport challenges. And that’s just for starters.

Here in Planning and Transport, you’ll get involved in some of the most high-profile growth projects in Somerset. We host Hinkley Point C the largest infrastructure in Europe and worth over £3 billion to the southwest economy.

Now ask any of our people why they work here, and they’ll tell you about the incredible satisfaction that comes from being able to see your work make a difference. That, and the variety, the challenge and the unique career building opportunities.

Spotlight on Highways

There are around 120 of us working in Highways from Highways Superintendents to Engineers. What are we all about? Well, delivering highway schemes to time, cost and quality but most importantly making a difference to local communities.

We have over £50m of major highway projects in progress, with more planned. As the highways authority, we look after 6,600km of road, 2,000 bridges, 900km of ditches, 120,000 gullies and 52,000 street lights. This network is growing too, with 9km of new highway every year, 9,500 planning applications every year and 700+ live development sites at any one time.