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highwaysdevelopmentcontrol

highways development control

The expertise of our secondment staff covers:

  • Providing highways input into planning applications.
  • Provide guidance on road adoption layout matters and highways planning enforcement.
  • Guidance on footway crossings and design standards.
  • Planning appeals, written representations, formal hearings and public inquiries.
  • Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act and Freedom of Information Act.
  • Assessing the highway and transport aspects of major planning applications.
  • Assess the safety, mobility and environmental impacts of new developments, identifying problems, issues and potential solutions.
  • Evaluating transport assessments and travel plans.
  • Recommending planning conditions and compiling legal agreements under the Highways Act and the Town and Country Planning Act.
  • Development plans, development briefs and Local Development Frameworks (LDFs).
  • Administration of applications for Orders to extinguish Highway Rights.
  • Prepare reports and statements as appropriate to Environment Committees, District and Parish Councils and other bodies for magistrate’s courts and public inquiries.
  • Applying the Advance Payments Code.
  • Project managing Section 38/16 and 278/75 legal Agreements.