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Highways maintenance and projects
Medway Council's Planned Maintenance Team and Capital Projects
Team have two distinct and separate functions:
- to maintain the public roads and paths in a safe and usable
condition for all highway users;
- to carry out the design and construction of highway schemes as
requested.
The Planned Maintenance Team undertakes the re-surfacing of
roads and paths and looks after street furniture, making sure it is
in a safe and serviceable condition. This includes safety barriers,
bus shelters, unlit traffic signs and all white and yellow road
markings. Road drainage is also dealt with by the team, including
flooding due to blocked drains. The team can provide wheelchair and
pram ramps where these are needed.
Each year from October to the following April the team operates
a winter service, including salting certain roads and the siting of salt
bins.
When the Capital Projects Team is asked to design road
improvements (these could be for traffic calming, accident
reduction, safe routes to schools or for similar safety reasons)
residents who may be affected are informed or consulted as
appropriate. These projects are implemented only after all possible
options and all safety issues have been considered.
To report any
defects or to make an enquiry on any of these services,
contact customer services at the address below or complete one of
the following online forms:
Consent to deposit items or carry out temporary excavations in
the street
If you wish to temporarily deposit building materials, rubbish
or other items in a street or make a temporary excavation, you must
have consent from the council as the highways authority. You must
comply with any conditions attached to a consent and comply with
requirements relating to the fencing-off and lighting of deposits
or excavations.
Details of the legislation relating to this consent under the
Highways Act
1980.
Will tacit consent apply?
No. It is in the public interest that the council must process
your application before it can be granted. If you have not heard
about your application within the five-day target period, please
contact it. You can do this online by applying through
the
UK Welcomes service or by using the contact details below.
Apply online
Apply for a permit to occupy the road in connection with building
work
Failed application redress
Please contact the council in the first instance, using the
details below. If you wish to appeal against a decision, you may do
so to a magistrates' court.
Licence holder redress
Please contact the council in the first instance, using the
details below. If you wish to appeal against a decision, you may do
so to a magistrates' court.
Consumer complaint
If you have a complaint about a someone temporarily depositing
building materials, rubbish or other items in a street or making a
temporary excavation, you should first contact the contractor,
preferably in writing. If that does not work and if you are located
in the UK, Consumer Direct UK will
give you advice. From outside the UK, contact the UK
European Consumer Centre.
Other redress
If there are problems such as noise or pollution or if one
licence holder complains about another, please use the contact
details below.
Trade associations
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