Working within 1m of road edge?

[Alan Ambrose]

My experienced helper says we should not work within 1m of the road. This is a single track country road but does have occasional traffic.

 

One planning condition tells us we must construct a driveway apron with concrete edging installed by us next to the road side before our driveway starts:

 

 

Do we need a road closure? Interestingly Essex & Suffolk Water ignored this 'rule' but UKPN are insisting on it.

[JohnMo]

20 minutes ago, Alan Ambrose said:

planning condition tells us we must construct a driveway apron with concrete edging installed by us next to the road side before our driveway starts

You have to be a certified contractor to install the apron as it has to comply with roads spec. So be careful. We are on a similar road the contract just did the work with a couple of cones and a sign.

 

Openreach are working down the road today on the road edge (not for us), no road closures, just a sign.

[Alan Ambrose]

Just found this, but I think it only applies above 50mph:

 

8815 Safety at Streetworks v1_12.indd

 

[ProDave]

The halfway house I adopted, was I excavated and laid and compacted the sub base.  I interpreted the 1M from the highway unless fenced literally. and banged a few sticks in and strung out a "fence" then I was working on my land adjacent to the highway but fenced off.

 

I then got a highways approved contractor to lay the tarmac on my sub base.

[Gone West]

We were on a narrow single track lane and I wanted kerbs laid along the length of our site to stop runoff from the road. I didn't ask anyone for permission and just got a company in to do the work. That was in 2015 and they just used a couple of signs.

[Temp]

We're also on a single track road in a quiet village.  Our builder did the base right to the edge of the road and got a contractor to do the tarmac. Don't think he bothered with a road closure.

 

As our drive sloped down to the road he decided to put a metal linear drain along the edge of the road running into a piped ditch. That would have involved cutting the very edge of the road.