Street works permit scheme

A permit will be needed for any registerable activities. This includes:

• placing apparatus in the street
• inspecting, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing apparatus in the street
• changing the position, moving or removing apparatus
• maintenance and improvement works to the road 
• major road works

You must register all works that:

• involve the breaking up or resurfacing of any street
• involve opening the carriageway or cycleway of traffic-sensitive streets at traffic-sensitive times
• need temporary traffic control
• reduces the lanes available on a carriageway that has three or more lanes
• need a temporary traffic regulation order or notice, or interrupts pedestrian facilities
• need to reduce the width of an existing carriageway of a traffic-sensitive street and a traffic-sensitive time

For large scale and potentially disruptive works, you should register for a permit as soon as possible.

Immediate works also need a permit.

For works that are urgent or an emergency, or works that start out of working hours, a permit must be applied for by 10am the next working day.