By delivering high quality, client-focused, value for money highway infrastructure works, we can save developers time and money in achieving speedy adoption for clients.
Why use the highway adoption service?
- Coventry City Council is a specialist in executing works required of developers under Section 278 and Section 38 of the Highways Act
- By completing the S278 or S38 works for developers, we will shorten the adoption process and assist with third party works to speed things up
- We use our own labour or contractors from a market-tendered framework, providing assurance that you, as developers, are achieving value for money
- Avoids the need for further procurement and tendering, saving you money and time
- Removes the need for time and effort on the interface between the constructor and the Council when seeking highway adoption
- We are committed to our city and take pride in delivering high-quality projects you can be proud of
From construction to adoption, we will deliver a quality outcome, assuring highway works that meet our specification and enhance the quality of your development.
Highway Adoption Services
Case study - award-winning project showcases project excellence
A £10 million transformation of a Coventry estate, which won a national award for sustainability in housing, showcased the key role played by the Council’s Highways Adoption Service.
The project formed part of a regeneration of Manor Farm Estate in Coventry by WM Housing, in partnership with Coventry City Council and contractor Lovell, which saw nearly 300 of the housing provider’s homes get a much needed revamp.
Coventry City Council’s highways service played a major part in delivering the £3 million major improvements to the local infrastructure. The project was funded jointly between the Council and Citizen (formerly Whitefriars).
Council teams worked to reconstruct and remodel the roads and pavements which complemented the housing improvements. The work included realigning roads to promote safe driving, creation of more attractive parking areas and improved walking surfaces. To complete the scheme, highways staff also installed coloured surfacing and a range of complementary planting.
Neil Cowper, Head of Highways at Coventry City Council, said:
“We were extremely proud and pleased to work closely with our partners at Whitefriars (now Citizen) to deliver such a high-profile and award-winning scheme.
“Our initial work started back in August 2017 and it really showcased how the team brought a level of professional support and expertise to ensure the project was delivered to required levels and expectations.
“it was also very pleasing to gauge the reaction of the residents of Manor Farm who remained patient through the construction period. Quality is always of great importance to us and the project delivered one of the most significant improvements our teams have made to an area of the city and we are very proud of this. “Additionally because the work was carried through our Highways Adoption Service the roads and pavements which had been completely rebuilt in many cases were immediately adopted and not subject to any maintenance period”.
The Manor Farm project is a prime example of how Coventry City Council has the right engineering skills suited to executing works required of developers under certain sections of the Highways Act, namely Section 278 and Section 30. By carrying out the highway works directly, the Council can adopt the highway immediately on completion, thereby cutting down any defects or maintenance liability period and delivering completion earlier.
As Neil explained there are real benefits, financial and resource-wise, in engaging his team on highway projects such as these;
“We use our own labour or call off contractors from a market tendered framework, providing assurance that developers are achieving value for money from scale far greater than their own project and avoiding the need for further procurement and tendering, thus saving money and time.”
Highway Adoption Services
Case study - paving the way for culture
The Council’s Highways Adoption team have been hard at work managing a key project to deliver a key new car park scheme in the city.
The London Road/Charterhouse project forms part of an overall masterplan, The Sherbourne Loop, a multi-million-pound project led by Complex Development Projects (CDP), to create and redevelop historical links between The Charterhouse Monastery and the adjacent London Road Cemetery and River Sherbourne.
The £400k project which initially centres on links between London Road and historic Charterhouse Monastery, will bring a massive improvement not only for accessing the magnificent 13th Century Charterhouse building itself, but also through delivering much-needed increased car parking capacity, improvements to the landscape as well as improving the overall vehicle and pedestrian access. Such a project provides another excellent example of how Coventry City Council is a specialist in executing Highway works including those required under Sections 278 and 30 of the Highways Act.
Neil Cowper, Head of Highways at Coventry City Council said:
“This project is a great example of how the Council can work alongside partners and developers in delivering large complex infrastructure works such as this through managing partnerships and cost-effective solutions.
“This brings big benefits in that we can provide one point of contact for the project, reduces the need to engage a separate contractor to work on site and improve overall project delivery.
“We use our own labour or call off contractors from a market tendered framework, providing assurance that developers are achieving value for money from scale far greater than their own project and avoiding the need for further procurement and tendering, thus saving money and time. “The fact that the scheme will ultimately deliver major improvements and increase access to the site, which in turn will hopefully increase footfall initially to Charterhouse, is doubly pleasing. Quality is always of greatest importance to our team – this is our City and we take pride in delivering projects that fit our future vision as we continue our build-up to our year as UK City of Culture in 2021.”
The Charterhouse car park project is a prime example of how Coventry City Council has the right engineering skills suited to executing works required of developers under certain sections of the Highways Act, namely Section 278 and Section 30. By carrying out the highway works directly, the Council can adopt the highway immediately on completion, thereby cutting down any defects or maintenance liability period and delivering completion earlier.