Building materials must not be placed on the footway.
Building materials may be placed on the highway verge, provided that the verge is reinstated shortly after the removal of materials.
Building materials may only be placed on the carriageway of lightly trafficked roads - less than 20 vehicles in 3 minutes total 2-way flow (less than 400 vehicles/hour)
Building materials must not obstruct any public or private access to premises unless the consent of the occupier has been obtained.
Building materials must not obstruct the flow of water in any drainage channel.
Building materials must not obstruct access to any manhole or any other apparatus in the highway (e.g. water valves, fire hydrants, gas valves).
No material that is inflammable, explosive, noxious, dangerous or likely to putrefy shall be placed on the highway and nor shall anything else which might become a nuisance to users of the highway.
Any rubbish placed on the highway shall only be disposed of in licensed tips.
The highway shall be left in a clean and tidy condition. Any damage shall be reported to Dorset Highways and repaired in accordance with agreed details.
All signing and guarding measures, including lamps and cones, must comply with both the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, and with Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual. Both documents are available from HMSO.
The applicant shall not allow the obstruction to remain in the street any longer than is necessary.
Dropped Kerb licence
Terms & conditions of consent
Restrictions on Commencement of the Works
No works may be commenced before Dorset Council ('the Council') has issued the company licence to undertake works in the highway. The licence must be displayed on site while work is being undertaken.
The Company shall provide to the Council a minimum of 10 working days' notice of the provisional start and end dates for construction of the works
The Company shall provide the Council with a minimum of three working days' notice of the actual date of excavation.
If notice of the actual date of excavation is not provided to the Council, the Company must pay to the Council the full cost of a core sample test to determine the quality of construction.
The Company must carry out an investigation to determine the location of any underground apparatus on site. If apparatus are found, arrangement must be made with those who own the apparatus to ensure the safety of the public and the workforce and to ensure that no apparatus is damaged. If in doubt, contact the Council for further advice before proceeding.
The company must check with the property owner that any necessary planning consents have been granted. If planning was required the planning reference must be included on the application.
During the Works
The works must be completed in a good and workmanlike manner using proper materials in accordance with the Dorset Highways specification.
The Company shall provide the Council with the contact details of a representative for the duration of the Works and a telephone number of such representative which number shall be manned on a 24 hour basis.
The Company shall cause the works to be properly fenced and, during the hours of darkness, properly lighted
During the construction of the works the Company shall give Council officers free access to every part of the works for the purpose of inspecting both the works and the materials used or intended to be used. The Company shall give effect to any requirements made or directions given by the Proper Officer so that the works conform to the specification.
Any variation to the specification due to on-site conditions must be approved by a Council officer.
Damage to the Highway
Any damage to the highway caused by the Company will be made good by the Council at the expense of the company in accordance with Highways Act 1980.
Sub-Contractors
Any sub-contractor must also abide by these terms and conditions.
Public Liability Insurance
Throughout the duration of the works the Company shall maintain public liability insurance for a sum not less than five million pounds in respect of any single claim, the number of claims being unlimited, in the company's own name to cover claims for injury to or death of any person or loss or damage to any real; or personal property arising out the execution and use of the works.
Indemnity
The Company shall indemnify the Council against any actions, charges, claims, costs, expenses, losses, damages, demands, liabilities and proceedings arising out of any breach or non-observance by the Company of the terms of this document or at any time incidental to the carrying out or use of the works, including but not limited to:
Third party claims for death, personal injury or damage to property.
Statutory or other liability for the safety or security of the working methods, employment practices, protection of the environment and control of pollution.
This indemnity shall not apply in respect of any actions, charges, claims, costs, expenses, losses, damages, liabilities and proceedings arising out of any act, neglect, default or liability of the Council.
The company shall guarantee the quality of the work carried out for a period of two years. In this time the surface should remain in a safe and serviceable condition. If the surface fails in this time Dorset Highways will contact the company regarding the repair. Failure to carry out the required work may result in Dorset Council repairing and recharging the company.
Street Work Qualifications
Supervisors and operatives must be competent to work on the highway and be accredited under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991. All street works qualifications cards must be carried on site as they may be inspected at any time.
In town centre areas work to erect and dismantle hoarding should normally be outside working hours, contact with the local community highways team must be made to agree a suitable time.
The Licensee shall ensure that the hoarding is erected and inspected by a competent and reasonable person.
The Licensee shall maintain the hoarding/fence in a good condition for so long as the work continues.
Wherever possible a minimum clear width of 1.20 metres shall be maintained throughout the pedestrian footway.
The Licensee shall provide a convenient covered platform and handrail to serve as a footway for pedestrians outside the hoarding or fence if required.
Care shall be taken to ensure that blocks supporting uprights do not present hazardous trips and that any protruding ends are adequately marked or protected.
All vertical hoarding must be protected from passing traffic by adequately secured sleepers or similar barrier which must be lit during hours of darkness.
Dorset Highways so requires, the Licensee shall light the hoarding/fence during the hours of darkness. The Licensee shall remove the hoarding/fence and handrail/platform on completion of works or when required by Dorset Highways.
The Licensee shall make good to the satisfaction of Dorset Highways any damage to the highway caused as a result of the proposed works and in the event of this failing to be done, Dorset Highways will make good the damage and charge the cost to the Licensee.
The Licensee is reminded that the grant of this licence does not in any way remove his responsibility under any legislation for the time being in force as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the various Construction Regulations.
The Licensee shall hold Public Liability Insurance cover for at least £5 million against claims arising from any one occurrence.
All signing and guarding measures, including lamps and cones must comply with both the Traffic Signs, Regulations and General Directions, and with Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual. Both documents are available from HMSO.
The licence runs for a period of 28 days, if you require the hoarding for a longer period you should inform us with the first application as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to permit all extensions.
The licensee shall ensure that the hoarding does not obstruct the visibility of any sign, street light, traffic signal or junction.
Under the 1980 Highways Act both Dorset Highways and the police are given powers to require or to arrange the repositioning or removal of any structure, irrespective of this consent and to recover any costs incurred by such action.
This consent cannot be taken as authorising the creation of a nuisance or a danger to users of the highway.
In busy tourist areas (e.g Weymouth seafront, Swanage seafront) we do not normally permit hoardings to be erected during peak times (e.g major school holidays and large public events). If a licence is needed for emergency reasons please contact the local community highways team.
Scaffold licence
Terms & conditions of consent
The Licensee shall ensure that the scaffolding is erected and inspected by a competent and responsible person.
The Licensee shall ensure that the public are excluded from the working area and a surrounding safety zone whilst the scaffolding is being erected and dismantled by means of barriers and signs and/or by obtaining a temporary road closure Order. In town centre areas work to erect and dismantle hoarding should normally be outside working hours, contact with the local community highways team must be made to agree a suitable time.
Where required the Licensee shall erect a close boarded hoarding or fence to the satisfaction of Dorset Highways so as to separate the building from the highway. The erection of any such hoarding or fence must be the subject of a separate application (sections 172 & 173 of the Highways Act 1980).
To safeguard pedestrians the licensee shall provide close boarding, sealed to prevent debris falling onto pedestrians, beneath the full working area provided by the scaffolding and so as to give at least 2.5 metres headroom to users of the footway. Where possible a minimum clear width of 1.2 metres shall be maintained throughout the pedestrian footway.
The Licensee shall provide a convenient covered platform and handrail to serve as a footway for pedestrians outside the hoarding or fence.
The Licensee shall cause all vertical scaffolding within two metres of ground level to be painted white or highlighted by red and white stripes.
Care shall be taken to ensure that blocks supporting uprights do not present hazardous trips and that any protruding ends are adequately marked or protected.
Any scaffolding erected on the carriageway or within 450mm of the edge of the carriageway must be protected from passing traffic by adequately secured sleepers or similar barrier which must be lit during hours of darkness.
The Licensee shall maintain the scaffolding/platform and handrails in a good condition for so long as the work continues.
The Licensee shall ensure that the scaffolding and any associated hoarding/fence/platform and handrail is adequately lit at all times between half an hour after sunset and an hour before sunrise.
All signing and guarding measures must comply with both the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, and with Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual. Both documents are available from HMSO.
The Licensee shall remove the hoarding/fence/platform and handrail/scaffolding upon completion of the work or whenever required by Dorset Highways.
The Licensee shall make good to the satisfaction of Dorset Council any damage to the highway caused as a result of the proposed works and in the event of this failing to be done, Dorset Highways will make good the damage and charge the cost to the Licensee.
This consent cannot be taken as authorising the creation of a nuisance or a danger to users of the highway.
Under Section 169(4) of the Highways Act 1980 it is the duty of a person to whom a licence is issued by Dorset Highways in respect of any scaffolding or other structure:
to comply with any directions given to him in writing by Dorset Highways with respect to the erection an maintenance of traffic signs in connection with the scaffolding/structure.
to do such things in connection with the scaffolding/structure as any statutory undertakers reasonably request him to do for the purpose of protecting or giving access to any apparatus belonging to or used or maintained by the undertakers.
If you fail without reasonable excuse to comply with the terms of this Licence or to perform a duty imposed under Section 169(4) referred to above you will be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400.
You are reminded that the grant of this licence does not remove any responsibilities you may have under other legislation - e.g. Part 1 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Construction (Working Places) Regulations 1966.
If you object to the terms of this Licence (or a refusal to grant a licence) you have the right to appeal to a magistrate's court.
This consent cannot be taken as authorising the creation of a nuisance or a danger to users of the highway.
Under the 1980 Highways Act both Dorset Highways and the police are given powers to require or to arrange the repositioning or removal of any structure, irrespective of this consent and to recover any costs incurred by such action.
The licence runs for a period of 28 days, if you require the scaffolding for a longer period you should inform us with the first application as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to permit all extensions.
In busy tourist areas (e.g Weymouth seafront, Swanage seafront) we do not normally permit scaffolds to be erected during peak times (e.g major school holidays and large public events). If a licence is needed for emergency reasons please contact the local community highways team.
The licensee shall ensure that the scaffold does not obstruct the visibility of any sign, street light, traffic signal or junction.
Skip licence
Terms & conditions of consent
Skips on the carriageway shall be placed parallel to, and as close as possible to, the edge of the carriageway.
Skips must not obstruct the flow of surface water in any drainage channel.
Skips must not obstruct access to any manhole or any other apparatus in the highway (e.g. water valves, fire hydrants, gas valves.
Skips must not obstruct any public or private access to premises unless the consent of the occupier has been obtained.
No skip shall exceed 5 metres in length by 2 metres in width. Anything larger than this is not routinely permitted on Dorset Council roads due to the possible damage that they might cause. If a larger skip is required please contact the local community highways team.
Where this consent applies to a group of skips they shall be positioned as closely as possible to each other. If the gap between adjacent skips exceeds 2 metres then they will be regarded as single skips for the purpose of licensing, marking, guarding and lighting.
The ends of skips should be painted yellow and the outside edge of each end must be marked with a vertical strip of broad red fluorescent and yellow reflecting diagonal stripes. These markings must comply in all respects with the Builders Skips (Markings) Regulations of 1984 (SI 1984 No. 1933).
Every skip must be clearly marked with the owner's name, address and telephone number.
The markings specified in Sections 7, 8 and 9 must be kept clean and visible to traffic.
No material that is inflammable, explosive, noxious, dangerous or likely to putrefy shall be put into any skip whilst it is on the highway and nor shall anything which might become a nuisance to users of the highway.
Skips must not be overloaded and contents must not be allowed to fall onto the highway.
Skips shall be removed for emptying no later than two working days after filling.
The contents of skips shall be disposed of only to licensed tips.
The highway at the skip site shall be left in a clean and tidy condition and any damage shall be reported to Dorset Highways and repaired in accordance with agreed details.
When on the carriageway, skips shall be guarded by not less than four traffic cones placed in an oblique line on the approach to the skip, or row of skips, except that traffic cones may be omitted when the skips are located on minor residential roads where parking normally takes place or in areas set aside for parking.
The skip owner must ensure that skips are lit at night (i.e. half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise) by placing or attaching road danger lamps to each corner of a skip, or row of skips, and between each traffic cone.
All signing and guarding measures, including lamps and cones, must comply with both the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, and with Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual. Both documents are available from HMSO.
Authority for the issue of consents for skips on highways is contained in Section 139 of the 1980 Highways Act. The Section also specifies legal penalties on skip owners for non-compliance with any of the above conditions.
This consent cannot be taken as authorising the creation of a nuisance or a danger to users of the highway.
The granting of this consent does not impose any legal liability on Dorset Highways for any injury, damage or loss resulting from the presence of the skip, or skips, on the highway, and skip owners must therefore hold public liability insurance cover of at least £ million.
Under Section 140 of the 1980 Highways Act both Dorset Highways and the police are given powers to require or to arrange the repositioning or removal of skips, irrespective of this consent and to recover any costs incurred by such action.
In busy tourist areas (e.g Weymouth seafront, Swanage seafront) we do not normally permit skips to be erected during peak times (e.g major school holidays and large public events). If a licence is needed for emergency reasons please contact the local community highways team.
The licence runs for a period of 14 days, if you require the skips for a longer period you should inform us with the first application as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to permit all extensions.
The licensee shall ensure that the skip does not obstruct the visibility of any sign, street light, traffic signal or junction.