Highway Maintenance
What we do...
The Highway Maintenance Division is reponsible for the
maintenance of all adopted highways in the Vale of Glamorgan and
associated infrastructure including the highly successful and award
winning Alleygates scheme. The Operational Manager Andrew Loosemore
leads the Division with three groups to carry out the regulatory
functions.
Routine Maintenance Team
Responsibilities include...
- Carriageway maintenance
- Footway maintenance
- Highway surfacing
- Highway verge maintenance
- Maintenance of highway barrier fencing & bollards
- Weed control on the adopted highway
- Traffic Management Act (2004) & New Roads & Street
Works Act (1991)
- Highway inspections
- Highway claims
- Provision of disabled crossings
- Highway enforcement
Construction Team
Responsibilities include...
- Construction works
- Gully cleansing
- Highway drainage maintenance
- Manufacture and install signage/street
nameplates
- Maintain highway road markings and cats eyes
- Maintain highway bus stops and seats
- Highway ditching maintenance
- Provision of a highway winter maintenance service
- Highway car parks
Street Lighting Team
Responsibilities include...
- Energy management
- Innovative and efficient solutions for future lighting
- Repairs and maintenance to street
lamps
- Installation of new street lighting
- Traffic signal maintenance
- Maintenance of illuminated street signs and bollards
- Maintenance of Pelican and Zebra crossing equipment
