As the highway authority for all public roads (other than trunk roads and motorways) in the county, Herefordshire Council has a variety of statutory duties.
Our highway maintenance plan sets out these duties and the minimum standard of service that will be delivered to ensure that these duties are fulfilled.
The plan has been developed based upon national guidance and best practice, particularly Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure.
The highway maintenance plan ensures that we follow national good practice in dealing with policy, strategy and operations of the highway maintenance service, which is a stated objective in the local transport plan.
The plan also details how we will deal with issues that arise relating to the highway, such as licencing, controlling abnormal loads and adoptions. The plan has specific appendices covering:
- Network hierarchies
- Public rights of way
- Structures
- Highway drainage
- NRSWA
- Adoption of highways
- Licencing
- Winter service
- Street lighting, signals and signs
- Road markings
- Skid resistance
- Safety barriers
- Trees, shrubs and hedges
- Verges and highway vegetation
- Parish lengthsman
Specific maintenance programmes are compiled annually based upon the council's asset management approach. This is detailed in the transport asset management plan and asset lifecycle plans that cover specific maintenance strategies for the council's major highway assets, these can be found on the highway asset management page.