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Developers build most new unclassified access roads. Such roads are built to enable the purchasers of residential, industrial or commercial property to access their individual sites from the main and local road network.

Developers transfer the ownership of the access roads to the council as the highway authority on completion of the development, so that the future maintenance of the roads is not the responsibility of the developer or their customers.

So that the roads and footways are built to reasonable standards and road layout, signing, road marking and street lighting are consistent with current specifications, the council enters into a legal agreement with the developer. The developer agrees to build the roads in accordance with the council’s specification. Its Capital Projects Section supervises the construction. Normally, one year after the satisfactory completion of the work, the council will adopt the roads as public highway.

Planning consent for some developments will stipulate that the existing road network has to be improved, either adjacent to the development or, in some cases, at a point some distance from the site, for safety purposes or to allow for the increase in traffic.

The Transport and Design section maintains a list of current schemes. Any queries relating to this area of work should be referred to that section. Scale drawings of all developer schemes built since 1980 are available from the council.

 

For more information contact Customer First by telephone: 01634 333333 / SMS text messaging: 07739 657073 or by email: customer.first@medway.gov.uk

Write to: Customer First, Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR

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