Roads, highways and pavements
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An adopted street is a street that is maintainable at public expense and is the responsibility of the local highway authority in Blackburn this is Blackburn with Darwen Council
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Road gullies are used to divert surface water from the footway and carriageway to avoid flooding or localised ponding
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We are responsible for highway and infrastructure design schemes, including feasibility studies for highways, cycleways and town centres. We design highways and road safety schemes, undertake traffic signal design / modelling and supervise highways maintenance and improvement schemes.
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The highway management section is responsible for trees that overhang the highway and trees on the highway; the highways section is not responsible for trees on private land.
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It is an offence to place goods or signs which cause obstruction or include commercial advertising, within the highway.
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A legal order is needed to allow a road to be closed and this ensures appropriate notice is given to those affected by the closure.
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The main purpose of highway maintenance is to maintain the road network for the safe and convenient movement of people and goods using a variety of transport modes.
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This page contains the known roadworks that are likely to cause disruption to a significant number of highway users. This is not a comprehensive list of all roadworks that may be happening at any one time within the Borough.
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The highway section is responsible for licensing and enforcing all scaffold placed on the highway.
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The environment department is responsible for cleaning up spillages on the road.
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Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council aims to keep the most important roads and footways within the district safe and as free as possible from ice and snow.