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Roads and highway licences

  • Outdoor hospitality: licences and guidance

    Apply for a pavement licence to use tables, chairs and other temporary furniture on the road or pavement outside your business.

  • Apply for a temporary traffic regulation order (TTRO)

    Apply for temporary traffic restrictions for planned roadworks and building works next to a road and see recently advertised TTRO.

  • Apply for a temporary traffic regulation notice (TTRN)

    Apply for temporary traffic restrictions for unplanned or emergency roadworks or planned works lasting no more than two days.

  • Apply to close a pavement or footway

    Get permission to close a pavement or footway for works.

  • Apply to set up portable traffic signals

    Get permission to set up portable traffic signals, and get permanent traffic signals turned off and on.

  • Get a Section 50 licence

    How to apply for a Section 50 licence to work on or install new apparatus on the road.

  • Suspend a bus stop or taxi rank

    When you can suspend a bus stop or taxi rank, costs, how to apply, change or cancel your application.

  • Scaffolding and hoarding licence

    Licence needed to put scaffolding or hoarding on a highway.

  • Building materials on a highway licence

    Licence needed to put building materials, including storage containers, on a highway.

  • Highway excavation licence

    Licence needed to do any excavations on the highway.

  • Licence for using a crane over a highway

    Licence needed for using either a tower crane, or mobile crane, on or above the adopted highway.

  • Licence for a structure which will go under the highway

    Licence needed for a structure, or any part of a structure, which will go under the adopted highway.

  • Licence for structure which will go over the highway.

    Licence needed for a permanent structure, or any part of a structure, which will overhang the adopted highway.

  • Apply for a permit to put a skip on the highway

    You must apply for a licence to put a skip on the public highway.

  • Festive lights on a highway licence

    You must apply for a licence to put festive lights on or over a highway.

  • Highway structures Technical Approval

    What Technical Approval is, how to submit a Technical Approval and guidance for submissions.

  • Apply to suspend a parking bay

    Apply to temporarily suspend a residents’ bay, shared-use bay, pay and display bay, limited waiting bay, or a bay in one of our car parks.

  • Apply to temporarily put traffic cones on a road or yellow lines

    Apply to temporarily cone off an area of unrestricted road or yellow lines to help with parking or traffic flow.

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