Director of Regeneration
- To grant or refuse consents, to serve notices and take any necessary action including recovery of costs in respect of the following:
- Assertion and protection of public rights to use of highways
- Unlawful damage or disturbance to highways and footways; unauthorised marks on highways
- Control of deposit and removal of builders’ skips;
- Planting trees in or near the highway;
- Removal of deposits on the highway;
- Snow clearance;
- Prevention of soil or refuse being washed into street;
- Removal of projections from buildings;
- Trees, shrubs, hedges overhanging the highway, or which are dangerous;
- Prevention of water falling on or flowing on to highway;
- Barbed wire fences;
- Dangerous land adjoining street;
- Control of deposit of building materials;
- Making of excavations in streets;
- Construction of fence/hoarding, or other structure in connection with erection or demolition of building;
- Privately owned bridges;
- Construction of buildings over highways;
- Erection of apparatus across a highway;
- Construction of cellars under a carriageway of a street;
- Cellars, and openings under streets and pavement lights and ventilation;
- Vehicle crossings over footways and verges;
- Repairs to private streets
- Licences for street works and new road
- Encroachments in, on, or over the public highway.
- The erection of Direction Signs by private individuals or outside bodies.
- To take such action as is considered necessary to secure compliance with the provisions of the Rights of Way Act 1990.
- To accept offers of land for dedication for highway purposes, and to carry out works or pay costs and expenses in adopting the land, up to a total of £5,000.
- To approve the marking of the word “Entrance” or “Disabled” on the carriageway where requested by the occupants of premises, and to ask in the case of “Entrance” the occupant to meet its cost.
- To decide any request for a disabled parking space where a car is not available but the applicant is clearly in need of assistance.
- To object to the proposed naming of a street by developers or any other person.
- To allocate street numbers to small infill developments in the city, and to allocate street names and building names.
- Temporary restrictions:-
- To authorise any necessary action in respect of temporary traffic restrictions for all purposes.
- Power to set the level of fees payable by outside bodies for temporary restrictions undertaken on their behalf.
- Powers and duties in respect of traffic regulation orders where no objections are received to a proposed order or where an objection is received but subsequently withdrawn.
- To agree terms for agreements with developers under Section 38 of the Highways Act 1980.
- To agree terms for agreements under Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 (contributions towards off-site highway infrastructure).