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Roads & Highways - Maintenance Programme Structural Surveys
The Highway Authority is responsible for maintaining
the roads (technically known as 'carriageways') and pavements
(known as 'footways') of adopted highways. An adopted highway is
one where the local authority has taken on the legal responsibility
for maintenance.
North Yorkshire
County Council (NYCC), as Highway Authority, has overall
responsibility for highway and traffic matters (except those
to do with Motorways and Trunk Roads) in the whole of North
Yorkshire County including Harrogate
District. However, Harrogate
Borough Council acts as Agent for the County Council regarding
highway/traffic matters in the closely linked urban areas of
Harrogate and Knaresborough (map below), an area with a population
of around 85,000.
We inspect every adopted highway on a regular basis. Any area of road or pavement which the inspector thinks may become an imminent danger to road users or pedestrians is noted and a repair arranged.
If during this inspection any streets are judged to need more
extensive treatment they are listed and their condition is assessed
at a later date.
Each year we carry out a survey of the condition of all
principal and other classified roads, some of the busiest
unclassified roads and those unclassified roads that need more
extensive treatment than minor repairs. This then provides us with
the information needed to draw up the annual structural
maintenance programme.
See also Carriageway Resurfacing
Works.
The Council has a responsibility to keep the roads and
footpaths, within it's agency area, safe to use.
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