Highway maintenance key objectives

The Code of Practice for Maintenance Management identifies the types of highway inspection that should be carried out to address three key objectives of a highway maintenance strategy.

• Network safety - safety inspections and ad-hoc inspections
• Network serviceability - inspection of utility and licensees works
• Network sustainability - structural condition surveys

To ensure the identified key objectives are achieved Salford City Council intends to:

• Carry out safety inspections, at prescribed frequencies on all carriageways, footways and interlinking footpaths that are defined as highways maintainable at public expense.
• Carry out systematic inspections and ad-hoc inspections following customer requests for service to identify works of maintenance. 
• Prioritise planned, routine, reactive and emergency maintenance following these inspections in accordance with agreed criteria set out in this document.
• Carry out systematic condition surveys to monitor the structural condition of footways and carriageways over time and for local identification and prioritisation of programmed maintenance treatments and schemes.
• Carry out regular skid resistance surveys (SCRIM) on the principal road network and high-use sites on the non-principal road network, to identify locations where improvement of the skid resistance may be necessary.
• Carry out inspections to monitor works executed in the highway by utilities and other licensees in accordance with the New Roads & Street Works Act 1991 and its associated Codes of Practice.
• Fully investigate and respond to all claims for personal injury incurred in the highway.
• Deal with all claims in accordance with the civil procedure rules.
• Undertake an inventory of all appropriate highways, formally maintained by the Housing Directorate, but now deemed to be part of the adopted highway network, as per the Gullikson ruling.
• Carry out annual safety inspections on the above highways upon completion of the inventory.
  

This page was last updated on 17 November 2010