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    • Leicestershire Highway Design Guide pdf version
    • Glossary
  • Highway development management
    • Highway development management policies
      • HDM policy 1 sustainable access for all
      • HDM policy 2 access to the existing highway network
      • HDM policy 3 highway safety
      • HDM policy 4 development impact policy
    • Preparing development proposals
      • Sites in strategic locations
      • Pre-application phase
      • Planning application requirements
      • Extent of assessment required
      • Planning application content
      • Sustainable transport and active travel
      • Safe and suitable access
      • Mitigating impact on road safety or the network
      • Assessing transport impacts
      • Data requirements
    • Transport assessments, statements and travel plans
      • Transport assessments
      • Transport statements and travel plans
    • Highway development management survey requirements
    • Transport modelling
      • Network modelling services
      • Junction modelling services
    • Road safety audit policy
      • When road safety audits are required by the council
      • Road safety audit stages
      • The developer's responsibilities
    • Air quality management areas
    • Section 278 agreements: information required at the preliminary design stage
  • Highway layouts and design
    • Road layouts and design
      • Road types
      • General layout and geometry - residential sites
      • General layout and geometry - employment sites
      • Well connected road networks
      • Swept path analysis
      • Vertical curves
      • Visibility Splays
      • Junction type, geometry and spacing
      • Turning heads
      • Mixed-use developments
    • Developments served by private drives and areas
    • Active travel
      • Active travel principles
      • A strategic approach to design
      • Assessing provision and the active travel matrix
      • Active travel geometry
      • Additional active travel considerations
      • Active travel routes independent of roads
      • Active travel road crossings
      • Active travel crossings at junctions
      • Active travel signalised junctions and roundabouts
      • Horse-riding
    • Public rights of way
      • Public rights of way design principles
      • Diverting or Stopping-up a right of way
    • Passenger transport
      • Passenger transport and transport assessments
      • Agreeing bus service provision
      • Pedestrian access to bus routes
      • Siting bus stops
      • Lay-bys and bus stop clearways
      • Designing passenger transport routes
      • Passenger transport interchanges
    • Design and approval of highway structures
      • Adopting structures
      • Definition of a structure
      • Design and check certificate
    • Speed control
      • Speed control on internal development roads
      • Speed Control on the Existing Road Network
    • Street lighting design
    • Signing and lining
    • Utilities
    • Highway drainage design
      • Adoption of drainage proposals
      • Drainage types
    • Green infrastructure
      • Designing green infrastructure
      • Mitigating the impacts on wildlife
      • Principles and layout guidance
      • Locating green infrastructure and maintenance
      • Conservation verges
    • Protecting natural assets
      • Adopting existing green infrastructure
      • Principles of retaining natural assets
      • Understanding a tree’s form and function
      • Tree survey work
      • Planning green infrastructure
      • Excluding construction activity from the root protection area
      • Tree surgery and site aftercare
      • Backfilling and compaction of the tree’s roots
      • Protecting trees checklist
    • Protecting heritage
    • Parking and making provision for service vehicles
      • Types of parking standards
      • Parking for cycles
      • Parking for motorcycles
      • Off-street residential car parking standards
      • Non-residential parking standards
        • Non-residential parking standards Class B
        • Non-residential parking standards Class C
        • Non-residential parking standards Class E
        • Non-residential parking standards Class F
        • Non-residential parking standards Sui Generis
      • Accessible parking standards
      • Design principles for off-street parking
      • On-street parking
      • School parking provision
    • Electric vehicle charging points
  • Approvals, road adoptions and commuted sums
    • Highway adoption policy
    • Section 38 agreements and highway adoption
      • Requirements for preparing a section 38 agreement
      • Section 38 and technical approval
      • Requirements for completing the Section 38 agreement
      • Before commencing construction works
      • During construction of Section 38 works
      • Section 38s certification and maintenance
    • Section 278 agreements and highway adoption
      • Requirements for preparing a Section 278 agreement
      • Section 278 and technical approval
      • Section 278 and traffic regulation orders
      • Constructing section 278 highway works
      • Section 278s certification and maintenance
      • The Land Compensation Act 1973 and the Noise Insulation Regulations 1975
    • Roads that are to remain private
      • Technical approval of roads to remain private
      • Advance payment code
    • Plans and data requirements for the technical approvals process
      • General drawing requirements
      • As built plans and supplemental agreements
      • Network data and intelligence team activities
    • Health and safety
    • Commuted sums
      • Commuted sums policy
      • Applying commuted sums
      • Commuted sums and Section 278
      • Calculating commuted sums
      • Commuted sums schedule
    • Section 184 applications
  • Materials and construction
    • Using alternative materials
    • Site surveys, tests and investigations
    • Sampling and testing goods and materials
    • Earthworks
    • Road pavement
      • Internal development roads
      • Subgrade assessment
      • Carriageway sub-base and capping layer
      • Bituminous layers
      • Concrete block paving
      • Skid resistance policy and high friction surfacing
      • Coloured surfacing
      • Resurfacing and widening carriageways at junctions within existing roads
      • Warm mix asphalts (WMA)
      • Construction standards for private drives and areas
    • Active travel assets and other paved areas
      • Footways
      • Pedestrian deterrent paving
      • Footways, cycleways and other hard-paved areas on industrial access roads
      • Paved areas not required for the safe and effective functioning of the highway
      • Flush dropped pedestrian and cyclist crossing points
      • Tactile, block paving and coloured paving
      • Routes that accommodate horse-riding
    • Construction supervision of highway structures
    • Speed control features
    • Safety fencing and barriers
    • Traffic signs
    • Traffic signals equipment
      • Adopting traffic signals
      • Design of traffic signal equipment
      • Construction supervision
    • Street lighting
      • Installing street lighting
      • Street lighting compliance
      • The council's inspection of new street lighting
      • ‘Heritage’ style street lighting
    • Road markings and studs
    • Street name plates
    • Marking the highway boundary
    • Highway drainage
      • Discharge from the proposed drainage and consents
      • Run off from land adjacent to the highway
      • The hydraulic design of adoptable highway drains
      • Use of combined kerb and drainage systems
      • Classifying drainage as a structure
      • Catchpits
      • Positioning and alignment of highway drains
      • Gullies
      • Sub-soil drainage and backfilling trenches
      • Sustainable drainage systems
    • Green and blue infrastructure
      • Tree planting and utilities
      • Species selection
      • Selecting planting stock and materials for landscaping
      • Site preparation
      • Presence of invasive and injurious plant species on site
      • Planting best practice
      • Highway verges
      • Protecting wildlife and mitigation measures
      • Inspections and developer maintenance of new landscaping
    • Noise barriers, screening and bunding
    • Street furniture and art
    • Standard drawings and specification
      • Series 100: information boards
      • Series 300: Fencing
      • Series 500: Drainage
      • Series 700: Road pavements
      • Series 1100: Kerbs, footways, cycleways and paved areas
      • Series 1200: Traffic signals and standard signs
      • Series 1300: Street lighting (column, brackets and masts)
      • Series 1400: Electrical work for road lighting and traffic signs
      • Rights of way standard drawings
  • Network management
    • Traffic regulation orders
  • Templates, checklists and forms
    • Road safety audit checklist and templates
    • Adoptions and approvals: applications and example legal agreements
    • Surfacing materials palettes
    • Pre-construction phase guidance
  • Fees and charges

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    • Highway adoption policy
    • Section 38 agreements and highway adoption
    • Section 278 agreements and highway adoption
    • Roads that are to remain private
      • Technical approval of roads to remain private
      • Advance payment code
    • Plans and data requirements for the technical approvals process
    • Health and safety
    • Commuted sums
    • Section 184 applications

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Roads that are to remain private

The council must also approve all roads constructed within new development that are to remain private
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road.adoptions@leics.gov.uk

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