Highway inspection policy

This policy deals specifically with highway safety inspections and repair response target times. The Authority’s methodology will be to undertake safety inspections followed by repairs on a risk-based approach and timescale to enable highway inspectors to focus specifically on defects which, if not repaired, would likely to become a potential danger to road users and pedestrians. Highway safety inspections are derived from two main sources:

•         Planned cyclic highway inspections to identify defects which meet our investigatory levels; and

•         Ad-hoc reactive highway inspections following enquiries from customers in respect to the condition of the highway

Records of cyclic safety inspections and safety inspections following enquiries will be maintained using Symology Insight which is a purpose-designed computerised highway asset management system.