Highway charges

All charges below apply from 1 April 2026.

Vehicular access etc

Highways Charges Charge 2026/27
1. Application Pack£56
2. Traffic Regulation Order Contribution (if required)£550
3. Inspections£151
4. Joint site defect inspection£109

H Bar Markings

Highways Charges Charge 2026/27
1. Install H Bar Marking£138

Section 184 Minor Works Agreement design guide (MWA)

Highways Charges Charge 2026/27
1. Application pack£56
2. Cost of Agreement£639

Skip licences etc

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
1. Skip licence - (up to 12 cubic yards) for 14 days **£39
2. Skip licence - (over 12 cubic yards) for 14 days **£48
3. Skip licence - Parking Dispensation or Suspension - (to allow skips to be positioned in a time limited waiting bay, residential bay, on a single yellow line or double yellow lines in addition to a skip licence£35
4. Charge for non-licensed skip (including a licensed skip placed without a Parking Dispensation or Suspension where applicable)£280
5. Charge for skip found with defective signing and guarding£280
6. Skip Licence Renewal - (up to 12 cubic yards) max 14 days **£28
7. Skip Licence Renewal - (over 12 cubic yards) max 14 days **£34
8. Skip Licence Short Notice - (up to 12 cubic yards) max 14 days **£51
9. Skip Licence Short Notice - (over 12 cubic yards) max 14 days **£62
10. Licence to place builders materials on the Public Highway max 14 days**£123
** For the consideration of the licence application

Mobile access, hoarding and scaffold licences

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
1. Mobile access platform licence (e.g. cherry picker) max 3 days **£48
2. Charge for non-licensed platform £280
3. Scaffold licence max 28 days** £161
4. Charge for non-licensed scaffold £280
5. Charge for scaffold or platform found with defective signing and guarding£280
6. Mobile access platform licence renewal (e.g. cherry picker) max 3 days ** £34
7. Scaffold licence renewal max 28 days ** £114
8. Mobile access platform licence 'Short Notice' (e.g. cherry picker) max 3 days ** £62
9. Scaffold licence 'Short Notice' max 28 days ** £210
10. Hoarding licence max 28 days ** £161
11. Crane licence max 28 days ** £161
12. Crane licence – Oversailing highway max 28 days ** £161
13. Non-licenced crane £280
** For the consideration of the licence application

Switch off traffic signals

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
Switch off traffic signals: (4 hrs, travel to and from plus bagging off, 4hrs return and unbag/recommission)
1. Switch off during normal working hours£808
2. Extra Over during normal working hours due to delays by applicant per hour or part thereof£89
3. Switch off during evenings and weekends£1,040
4. Extra Over during evenings and weekends due to delays by applicant per hour or part thereof£116

Excavation in the highway

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
1. NRSWA S.50 Licence to place private apparatus in the Highway per street – apparatus to be retained in ‘private’ ownership per 200m (see item 6 below*)£505
2. Permission to excavate in the Highway per street for the maintenance of ‘private’ NRSWA S.50 licensed apparatus per 200m (see item 6 below*)£310
3. NRSWA S.50 Licence to place private apparatus in the Highway per street – apparatus to be ‘adopted’ by a statutory undertaker e.g. sewer connection per 200m (see item 6 below*)£310
4. Permission to excavate in the Highway per street e.g. trial holes per 200m (see item 6 below*)£310
5. Permission to excavate in the Highway per street for S62/S278 Agreements per 200m (see item 6 below*) £310
6. *Additional length per 200m or part thereof* £147
7. Contractor’s notification for 1.-6. above resulting in an abortive site visitFixed price FPN
8. Contractor’s failure to notify within licence timescales Fixed price FPN
9. Processing street works notices for private operators per 200m – (Highway occupation only, no excavation) (see item 6 above*)£159
10. Licence notice variation per occasion – (Early start, extension of time, variations, error correction etc.)£48

Traffic Regulation Orders, signs etc

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
1. Provision of a Temporary Traffic Regulation Order - Sect.14(1) Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (TTRO)£1,545
1a. Additional charge for amendments to a TTRO (per amendment)£250
2. Provision of an Emergency Traffic Regulation Order£946
3. Stopping Up Order - Full recharge of works associated with the stopping e.g. cost of consultation, advertising and court attendance, payable whether stopping up order is successful or not£2,651
4. Application to erect a tourist sign £295
5. Application to erect a developers sign £295
6. Authorised provision for non-commercial use; maps, plans, statistics, CPE & parking data (not already published in the annual report), copies of Traffic Regulation Orders, general business data held etc. Charge covers the first hour for provision and supply of the information and any copying costs.£64
7. Authorised provision of information/data for commercial use. Price on application will vary with nature of request
8. Giving permission to gather information£140
9. Provision of traffic count data£136

Provision of a salt bin

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
Provision of a salt bin£483
Routine maintenance visit£58
On-demand maintenance visit£87
Bagged white salt (25kg)£7.90

Parking dispensations

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
Parking dispensation – (to allow you to wait or load on a single yellow line or on double yellow lines when essential)£21 first day £16 per day for the 1st week and £9 per day thereafter
Parking suspension – (to allow you to wait or load in a time limited waiting bay, residential bay or Pay & Display bay when essential)£27 first day £22 per day for the 1st week and £11 per day thereafter plus loss of parking fees
Parking dispensation or suspension (i.e. funeral or wedding) – (to allow official funeral or wedding vehicles to wait or load in a time limited waiting bay, residential bay, Pay & Display bay, single yellow line or on double yellow lines when essential)First day no charge, £13 per day thereafter
Car park closure: A minimum fee, plus loss of revenue£494 plus calculated loss of revenue
Skip parking dispensation or suspension – see skip licensesSee skip licences

Fees under the Code of Practice for event management

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
1. The Town Police Clauses Act 1847£494
1a. Additional charge for amendments to a Sect.21 (per amendment)£250
2. The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 - Sect.16A-E£494
2a. Additional charge for amendments to a Sect.16A-E (per amendment)£250
2b. Additional charge for Sect.16A-E when seeking DfT regulatory permission for closure of the same road within the Calendar year£77

Other

Highways ChargesCharge 2026/27
1. A-Board licence fee£25 first licence, plus an application fee of £25. £25 annual renewal
1. Published street authority hourly recharge rate£62
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