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Highways Interface National Highways Interface Team

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Highways Interface

National Highways Interface Team

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Network Rail National Specialist Team

Knowledge of this primary legislation and its application is the Highways Interface Team’s specialism

• The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991

• Traffic Management Act 2004

• Transport Scotland Act 2005.

• Highways Act 1980

it is applied when Network Rail’s activity brings us onto the Publicly Maintained Highway

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What is a Public Highway?

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What are works & how do we book Roadspace?

Works are executed in, or from the street in pursuance of Network Rails’ role as the national railway network owner

Placing, storing materials. Maintaining, repairing, adjusting, or renewing apparatus.

Network Rail defines apparatus as

Barriers, bridges, cabinets, cables, chambers, columns, culverts, drains, ducts, fencing, gantries, pipes, rails, retaining walls, sewers, sleepers, towers, wires..

Streetworks Applications

Templates completed & sent to streetworks@networkrail

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Plan Ahead…..we have to!

• Highway Authorities have a statutory duty to manage their network.

–NRSWA

–TMA 2004

• Network Rail has a statutory duty to co-operate.

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Code of Business Ethics April 2010

Section 2

2. Laws, regulations and company policies

• Network Rail’s policy is to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Each of us is also expected to comply with all standards, policies and procedures issued

• Any case of actual or prospective non-compliance with either law or company policy should be reported to your line manager.

• Complying with all laws and Network Rail’s standards, policies and procedures is mandatory

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Applications

• A Network Rail Streetworks Application Form requires details such as

– the scale and nature of the works, where it will take place and the period of time during which the works will occur.

–The impact on other users of the street the type of traffic management that will be used.

–Highway Authorities operate either Notices or Permits

• A Road Closure Order or Road Closure Notice is NOT a Works Notice

• Needs to be a separate application

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Signing Lighting & Guarding

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Competency….Highway Requirements

• Any works site must have either:

–A qualified operative on site during progress of works

–A qualified supervisor appointed to attend the site or on-call

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The need for Traffic Control

• Adequate width is required for two-way working

– An unobstructed width of at least 6.75

metres is required

• Where these widths cannot be met Shuttle Working with traffic control MUST be introduced

– An unobstructed width reduced to a

maximum of 3.7 metres but not less

than 3.0m

• The following details are required to aid choice of traffic control method

1. Maximum speed limit

2. Coned area length

3. Traffic flow (maximum per 3 minutes)

• Choices

1. Give and take

2. Priority

3. Stop Go boards

4. Portable traffic Lights

5. Stop Work Signs

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What happens if we do not comply?

• Works can be delayed in starting

• Works may not be extended

• We can be ordered off site

• Fixed Penalty Notices (Fines)

• Overrun charges

• Prosecution

• ORR Intervention

–Negative reputational impact

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Achieving Compliance

Ownership and Identification

Co-ordination

Notification/Permits

Competency

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Ownership

• PROMOTER

A Promoter is the NETWORK RAIL Client post or client Section responsible for managing the works

• DELEGATION

Duration – Qualifications – Signing and Guarding Standards – Quality of Works – Traffic Management - Notification of Works

• RESPONSIBILITY

Remains with the promoter of the works

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What is Co-ordination?

Co-ordination means resolving any differences between

those competing for space or time in the highway,

including traffic and pedestrians, in a positive and

constructive way. For issues to consider see…

Working together:

A Good Practice Guide

to Managing

Works in the Street.

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Notices

• Noticing Authorities allow presumed consent unless they challenge an application.

• A Works Notice is a document that describes a works.

– It identifies the scale and nature of the works, where it will, or has taken place and the period of time during which the works will occur.

–A series of Notices relating to a works provide a documented history of the works from first notification to completion.

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Permits

• Permit Authorities require positive negotiation to identifies the scale and nature of the works, where it will take place on their network and the period of time during which the works will occur

• A site plan showing the area of highway occupied including SLG is required with the Permit Advanced Application

• Conditions will be applied to the works, which are mandatory

There are several steps required to achieve a permit to work and they provide a documented history of the works from first application to completion

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Notice / Permit Patterns

ENGLAND & WALES

WORKS TYPE

Immediate

FPIN

Emergency

Urgent

Minor

Standard

Major

3 months Or PAA

10 days /PA

3 days /PA

ARRIVE ON SITE

2 hours after PA

Works started

DEPART FROM SITE

Works Closed/ Cleared

N

OT

ICE

TY

PE

Registration

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Notice Submission Route

Notice /Permit in Prescribed

Format Prepared

PROMOTER

Notice/Permit checked and

Gazetteer Data added

Highways InterfaceTeam

Confirmatory copy of

Notice/Permit & next step

PROMOTER

EToN / SRWR

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Related Matters

• Road Closure [make application]

• Closure is authorised by the publication, by the relevant Traffic Authority, of a Notice or Order.

• Traffic Lights [seek permission]

• Where the criteria indicate that Temporary Traffic Signals (TTLs) are to be used, permission must be obtained from

the relevant Traffic Authority.

• Highways Act Section 171 [licence required]

• It is illegal to deposit materials or place other things in the street without the Traffic Authority’s written consent.

• This includes On Track Plant

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Obstruction of the Highway…

• Obstruction of the highway is dealt with in sections 137, 143, 148, and 149 of the Highways Act 1980.

It is an offence to deposit anything on the highway which “interrupts” a person using the highway. This includes the pavement (known as a “footway”), which under highways law is a part of the highway.

The highway authority can give notice requiring the removal of anything constituting a nuisance.

The law applies as much to footways as to those parts of the highway which are designated for use by vehicles.

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HI Contacts & Support

• Help is at hand in all territories.

–E-mail:

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

– In outlook search for Job titles containing “Highways Interface”

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Highways Interface

National Highways Interface Team