Streetworks

Utilities, local highways authorities and other bodies are coming under increasing scrutiny and pressures. The Traffic Management Act 2004 has tightened up the existing regulatory framework, expanding local authority power to prevent roadworks if the timing and location is inconvenient and created a permit system where utility companies must get written permission for roadworks.

The deregulation of utilities and the advent of cable TV have led to something in the region of a 12-fold increase in the number of companies with statutory rights to dig up public highways. A greater level of coordination is required if utility companies are to avoid the wrath of the media, shareholders, local authorities, other government bodies and the general public.

Street works must have a framework created that will manage the interaction between many disparate parties, such as statutory naming and numbering authorities (SNNAs), local authorities, utilities, highway authorities and central government, effectively and efficiently on a UK plc-wide basis.

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