Decision details

BCP Council is required by Government to implement a Street works Permitting Scheme by April 2020. Approval is sought for the terms of the scheme to be implemented, following consideration of the responses to the statutory consultation.

RESOLVED that:-

(a)          Cabinet approve the conditions to be applied to the BCP Council Street Works Permit Scheme, as described in the attached document, Appendix 2;

(b)          Cabinet delegate authority to the Director of Legal and Democratic Services to make the necessary Legal Order to bring the permit scheme into operation. 

Voting: Unanimous

Portfolio Holder: Transport and Infrastructure

Reasons

DfT require all Local Authorities to introduce a Street Works Permit scheme by April 2020, or as soon as practicably possible thereafter; the approved permit conditions for such a scheme and necessary legal order are required to bring this into operation.