The Street Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) Regulations 1992

Substantial road works

9.—(1) For the purposes of section 58(1) substantial road works means works for road purposes which:

(a) comprise a reconstruction, widening, alteration in the level, resurfacing or specialist non-skid surface dressing of the part of the highway concerned; and

(b) if executed in a footpath, footway, bridleway or cycle track (as defined in section 329(1) of the Highways Act 1980(1), extend for more than 30 metres of continuous length and result in the width of the footpath or cycle track available for pedestrians or cyclists, as the case may be, being reduced by more than two-thirds; and

(c) if carried out in the carriageway, extend for more than 30 metres of continuous length and result in the use by vehicles of the carriageway being prohibited or the width of the carriageway available for vehicular traffic being reduced by more than one-third.

(2) A notice under section 58 in relation to a restriction on works following substantial road works shall be published on two consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper circulating in the locality likely to be affected by the proposed restriction, and in addition in an edition of the London Gazette published no later than the date of the publication of the last of the said newspaper notices.

(3) For the purposes of section 58(5), in addition to the works specified in that subsection, the following works may be executed by an undertaker:

(a) urgent works;

(b) works required to respond to a request for a new service or supply to a customer which was not received at a time when it was practicable for the works to be done before the period of restriction began; and

(c) the following—

(i) works not involving breaking up the street,

(ii) repairing, resetting and replacing manhole or chamber covers and frames,

(iii) resurfacing up to 20 square metres,

(iv) pole, lamp, column or sign replacement in the same location,

(v) pole testing, and

(vi) works of a similar nature.

(1)

1980 c. 66; section 329(1) was amended by the Cycle Tracks Act 1984 (c. 38), section 1 and by the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54), Schedule 3.