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Roles and responsibilities

How to make a successful application

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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 and bend widening

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 and accesses 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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