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After substantial roadworks have been carried out, we are eligible to restrict any further works in the same area for up to 5 years. This is known as a "Section 58".

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Road and Street Works in the London Borough of Barnet 

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Most of the works undertaken in the borough are undertaken by statutory private utility companies, who install, repair or renew their assets.

Examples of these include:

• Cadent Gas
• Thames Water
• British Telecoms (Openreach)
• UK Power Networks
• Affinity Water
• Virgin Media

Under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, these utility companies that work on the public highway must comply with legislative requirements such as:

• Safety of their works site and excavations
• Standard of the reinstatement of the carriageway, footway, footpath and verges
• Qualifications of the employees undertaking the works
• Notification by these undertakers to the Council for proposed works

Street Works Register

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We are responsible for co-ordinating and monitoring street works carried out by utility companies. This includes maintaining a register of all planned street works with information such as:

• The utility or developer undertaking the work
• Planned start and end dates
• Location of works
• A description of works

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Inspecting Street and Roads Works

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We inspect Street and Road Works across the course of a financial year in line with Street Works inspection legislation. Inspections of works takes place over four different stages of the financial year. If we find things wrong with these sites we try and work together with them to sort out these issues, we can also issue a fine if they don't comply. Undertakers can apply for extensions of time to their works due to unforeseen circumstances. We are obliged to hold quarterly meetings with the utilities and Transport for London to discuss programmed planned works across the borough.

Protections of new footways and roads

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Under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, we can protect our newly laid roads and footways for a certain amount of time. To do this we can serve Section 58 notices on the utilities listed above.

This Section 58 notice prevents utilities from digging up up roads and footways for a period between 3-5 years after the road has been reconstructed or resurfaced. There are some exemptions to the rule such as:

• Minor works that do not involve breaking up or excavation of the highway
• Immediate (emergency) works
• Customer connections
• Works to comply with an improvement notice or prohibition notice issued by the Health and Safety Executive under Sections 21 or 22 of the Health and Safety Work etc. Act 1974
• Works carried out to comply with a programme approved under Regulation 13(a) of the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996 (SI1996/825, as amended by SI2003/2563) that could not have been identified before the restriction began.

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Utility contact details

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Temporary Traffic Order Application

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