Roads & Pathway Maintenance

Bournemouth Borough Council is responsible for maintaining approximately 500 km of adopted roads and 12.5 km of adopted footpaths within its boundaries.

Roads and paths are inspected regularly for safety and condition. Those that have not been adopted are either maintained by other departments of the Council or are the responsibility of private owners.

Maintenance of the highway includes trees, lighting, verges, structures, signs, street nameplates and drainage.

Q.       Why are Highway Maintenance Services carried out?

A.       The Council has a statutory duty to maintain the highway in its role as the Local Highway Authority.

Key Duties

Its key duties are to:

§        Maintain the highway network infrastructure

§        Administer highway legislation, under the Highways Act 1980

§        Manage and regulate traffic on the highway network under the “Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984”

§        Achieve economic, safety, environmental and social objectives, under the “Well Maintained Highways - Code of Practice for Highway Maintenance Management 2005”

§        Co-ordinate the execution of all works on the highway network, under the “New Roads and Street Works Act 1991”

§        Provide a Winter Service to to endeavour to maintain the availability and reliability of the highway network during adverse weather conditions.

§        Provide an Out of Hours Emergency Service to respond to incidents on the highway.

Disability Discrimination Act

Bournemouth Borough Council has a continuing programme of improving road junction and pavement crossings so that they are more accessible to wheelchair and pushchair users, as required by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

To report any problems or comments, please use the contact details below.

Contact Us

Use our online fault reporting service by clicking here, or

 

Email: highways@bournemouth.gov.uk, or

 

Tel: (01202) 451199 (during office hours), or

Tel: (01202) 451145 (outside office hours), or

Fax: (01202) 451007