Policy for Strategic Highway Network
To contribute to the Authority’s Corporate and Community Plan aims, of ensuring economic
prosperity, better health and well-being, and improving environment
and transport by maintaining accessibility to services and
employment. This will be achieved by identifying the strategic
highway network within the Authority’s adopted road network, and
undertaking the following actions: -
- Establish a strategic highway network hierarchy based on the
principles recommended in the Code of Practice for Maintenance
Management.
- Implement carriageway and footway inspections at frequencies
recommended in Code of Practice for Maintenance Management.
- Carry out annual reviews of the strategic highway network to
ensure it fully reflects the Community Plan aims and any physical
changes.
- Allocate a maintenance category to each section of carriageway
according to its importance within the strategic network.
- Prioritise highway maintenance schemes in accordance with their
maintenance categorisation.
This policy has cross cutting themes and complements and links
with the following Corporate Objectives and Policy Standards:-
- Environment
- Transport
- Community Safety
- Confident Communities
- Regenerating Communities & Sustaining the Environment
- Supporting the Disadvantaged & Improving the quality of
life
- Better Health and Well-being
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