Agenda item

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration.

The Well-managed Highways Infrastructure Code of Practice (WMHI) was published in 2016. It comes in to full effect at the end of October when previous codes of practice cease to be recognised.

This report includes the following documents:

•           Skid Resistance Policy Statement (Appendix 1)

•           Street Lighting and other Illuminated Infrastructure Policy Statement (Appendix 2)

•           Winter Services Policy (Appendix 3)

•           Winter Services Plan (Appendix 4)

•           Highway Safety Inspection and Repairs Policy Statement (Appendix 5)

•           Highway Safety Inspection and Repairs Plan (Appendix 6)

•           Public Right of Way Inspection and Repair Plan (Appendix 7)

These documents have been developed to meet the advice contained in the WMHI to do the following: view the infrastructure making up the highway as an integrated network, with polices designed to work as a collective; work with the policies of neighbouring authorities to enable consistency; support the risk based approach to maintenance; support the collection of data and the maintenance of a detailed network inventory to assist with asset management; enable efficient claims management and support the Council’s financial and lifecycle planning for the assets.

Cabinet is recommended to -

(1) Approve the adoption of the:

•        Skid Resistance Policy Statement

•        Street Lighting and other Illuminated Infrastructure Policy Statement

•        Winter Services Policy and Plan

•        Highway Safety Inspection and Repairs Policy Statement

•        Highway Safety Inspection and Repairs Plan

•        Public Right of Way Inspection and Repair Plan

(2) Agree that the gritting routes for winter 2018/19 in the Winter Services Plan will be updated as necessary considering the findings of the Functional Network Hierarchy, with approval from the relevant service director in consultation with the relevant cabinet member.

(3) Allow the following plans to be updated as necessary, with approval from the relevant service director in consultation with the relevant cabinet member, following their annual reviews or at any other time deemed necessary:

•      Winter Services Plan

•      Highway Safety Inspection and Repairs Plan

•      Public Right of Way Inspection and Repair Plan

Contact Officer: Sue Stevenson, 0161-474-4351, sue.stevenson@stockport.gov.uk

The Cabinet Member for Economy & Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Cabinet to consider a suite of policies and measures in response to the Well-managed Highways Infrastructure Code of Practice (WMHI) published in 2016 but that would come into full effect at the end of October 2018. The documents contained in the report had been developed to meet the advice contained in the WMHI.

The Cabinet Member emphasised the significant work involved in preparing and revising policies.

RESOLVED – That in relation to the Well-managed Highways Infrastructure Code of Practice:

(i)     the following documents be approved and adopted:

•        Skid Resistance Policy Statement

•        Street Lighting and other Illuminated Infrastructure Policy Statement

•        Winter Services Policy and Plan

•        Highway Safety Inspection and Repairs Policy Statement

•        Highway Safety Inspection and Repairs Plan

•        Public Right of Way Inspection and Repair Plan

(ii)    the gritting routes for winter 2018/19 in the Winter Services Plan be updated as necessary considering the findings of the Functional Network Hierarchy, with approval from the relevant service director in consultation with the relevant cabinet member;

(iii)  the following plans to be updated as necessary, with approval from the relevant service director in consultation with the relevant cabinet member, following their annual reviews or at any other time deemed necessary:

•        Winter Services Plan

•        Highway Safety Inspection and Repairs Plan

•        Public Right of Way Inspection and Repair Plan