Policy for Bridges and Structures
To
contribute to Corporate and Community Plan aims of ensuring economic
prosperity and improving environment and transport by maintaining
safe access to services and employment.
Bridges and structures on or affecting the adopted highway will
be maintained and constructed in a way that enables the safe
passage of vehicles, livestock and pedestrians within the limits
prescribed.
Structures include retaining walls, parapets, piped culverts,
embankments and cuttings that are the responsibility of the
Council.
In pursuit of the above we will do the following:
- maintain access to remote communities;
- maintain safely and repair bridges and structures in accordance
with their anticipated use, in a prioritised programme based on
safety requirement, the Council’s strategic network, economic
benefit and social requirement
- where appropriate, impose load limits on bridges and structures
as a means of maintaining safety, the integrity of the structure
and access
- identify risk, ownership and liability status of
structures
- make safe retaining walls and structures for which the Council
has responsibility, which support the road structure and are in
urgent need of repair,
- advise owners of retaining walls and structures for which the
Council does not have responsibility, which support the highway and
are in urgent need of repair, of their obligations to maintain such
walls; and;
- take action to make safe such retaining walls and structures in
urgent need of repair after reasonable notice to the owner and
re-charge the owner for the costs incurred
- without prejudice, advise owners, where possible, about
retaining walls and structures or parapets etc. in urgent need of
repair which do not support the highway but could affect the
highway and highway users if they collapse
- consult with statutory undertakers, environmental groups and
other stakeholders before carrying out works which may affect their
interests
- prepare a prioritised programme of maintenance and manage the
programme in accordance with the Council’s Asset Management
Plan.
- use sustainable materials and work practices where
feasible
This policy has cross cutting themes and complements and links
with the following Corporate Objectives
and Policy Standards: -
- Environment
- Transport
- Economic Prosperity
- Confident communities
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