Ways to pay highways fees and charges:
Our address: Highways, Rutland County Council, Catmose, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6HP
Highways fees and charges - accordion
Annual licences
Cultivate
- License to cultivate: £83.50
Street café
- Street café licence - initial fee: £314
- Street café licence - renewal: £158
- pavement licence: £100
A-boards
- to place A-board in highway - initial licence: £62
- to place A-board in highway - renewal: £31
Inspection of works and reinstatement
Brown Signs
- Initial assessment fee (non-refundable): £277
- Design fee per each design (not each sign): £141
- Sign washing fee per sign: £61.50
- Manufacture and installation - Sign(s) and post(s): Term Maintenance Contract actual costs, plus 10% staff time
- Removal fee (at end of agreement period, if agreement not re-applied for and approved) - Sign(s) and post(s): Term Maintenance Contract actual costs, plus 10% staff time
Temporary Direction Signs
- Application fee: As per Brown Signs
- Manufacture and installation fee Sign(s) and post(s): Term Maintenance Contract actual costs, plus 10% staff time
- Sign cleaning fee: £62
- Removal fee - Sign(s) and post(s): Term Maintenance Contract actual costs, plus 10% staff time
National set fees and charges
Charges in relation to works occupying the carriageway during period of overrun
Prescribed in the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991
| Works |
Cost |
| Traffic-sensitive street or protected street not in road category 2, 3 or 4 - first three days |
£5,000 |
| Traffic-sensitive street or protected street not in road category 2, 3 or 4 - each subsequent day |
£10,000 |
| Other street not in road category 2, 3 or 4 |
£2,500 |
| Other street not in road category 2, 3 or 4 - each subsequent day |
£2,500 |
| Traffic-sensitive street or protected street in road category 2 |
£3,000 |
| Traffic-sensitive street or protected street in road category 2 - each subsequent day |
£8,000 |
| Other street in road category 2 |
£2,000 |
| Other street in road category 2 - each subsequent day |
£2,000 |
| Traffic-sensitive street or protected street in road category 3 or 4 |
£750 |
| Traffic-sensitive street or protected street in road category 3 or 4 - each subsequent day |
£750 |
| Other street in road category 3 or 4 |
£250 |
| Other street in road category 3 or 4 - each subsequent day |
£750 |
| NRSWA sample inspection |
£50 |
| Defect inspection |
£47.50 |
| Third party defect |
£68 |
Section 41 Traffic Management Act 2004
| Works |
Cost |
| Fixed penalty notice - ETON notices |
£120 |
| If paid within 28 days |
£80 |
Section 74 Traffic Management Act 2004
| Works |
Cost |
| Fixed penalty notices |
£120 |
| Discounted rate |
£80 |
Other charges
Accident data
- Request for accident data - enquiry with no accidents (to commercial agents - cost to litigants): £55
- Request for accident data - raw data - any enquiry up to 50 accidents (to commercial agents - cost to litigants): £106
- Request for accident data - raw data - major enquiry over 50 accidents (to commercial agents - cost to litigants): Cost plus FOI duplicating and postage charges
Speed surveys
- Speed surveys: £492
- Post for speed surveys: post at term maintenance contract actual costs, plus staff time
Local Search Highway Plan
Section 38, 278 and 106 agreements
- Section 38 Agreement Fee (supervisions fees): 11% to £500,000 then 5% plus legal fees
- Section 278 Agreement Fee (Minimum fee £3,500 Non-Refundable): Minimum £3,500 or the agreement fee is to be charged upfront.
- S38 - Technical Approval (non-refundable): £3,000 to £5,000 depending on size of site
- Adoption of roadside gullies as part of S38 agreement: £1,500
Grit bins
- Filling of parish grit bins: £72
Removal, storage and disposal or structure with highway - caravan, Highways Act 1980 for example
- Removal of vehicles equal to or less than 3.5 tonnes: Vehicle on road, upright and not substantially damaged or any two wheeled vehicle: £252
Land drainage
Road traffic accidents
- If fatal and nobody convicted of an offence: no charge
- Otherwise: term maintenance contract actual costs, plus 10% staff time
- Minimum charge: £247
Other licences
Skips
- One week period, or part thereof: £44
- Extension for one week or part thereof: £44
- In addition to skip permit where suspension of parking bay per six metres squared, per day: £29
- Weekly charge for skips illegally place on the highway or found to have exceeded its permit: £156
Scaffold / hoardings
- Four week period or part thereof: £123
- Extension for four weeks or part thereof: £92
- Weekly charge for any scaffolding illegally placed on the highway or found to have exceeded its permit: £156
- Mobile scaffold tower - per day: £123
- Mobile tower extension - per day: £92
Cherry picker
- Cherry picker - per day: £123
- Cherry picker extension: £92
Building material on the highway
- Building material on the highway - per week: £44
- Building material on the highway - per additional week: £19
Bench or obstruction licence
- To place benches or obstruction (a noticeboard, for example) in highway - initial fee to make or amend licence: £314
- To amend bench or obstruction licence: £231
Vehicle access permit
- Vehicle crossing application and permit fee for Section 184 - up to two domestic properties: £187
- Vehicle crossing application and permit fee for Section 184 - over two properties and commercial: £550
- Vehicle crossing application and permit for section 184 temporary access (on MAJ (major) developments whereby a S278/S38 agreement will follow): £3,500
- H-bar marking: £191
Road closures and traffic management
Road closures
- Temporary road closure application: £946
- Temporary road closure application - including advertising for works longer than five days: £1,386
- Temporary traffic regulation order application: £946
- Deferring start date of an already processed order: £474
- Emergency road closure (by Notice): £630
- Advertising fees for temporary traffic regulation order: at cost plus 10% administration fee
Traffic signals
- Turning off traffic signals for required works: £382
- Temporary traffic signals: £67
Review of traffic management proposal
- Major: £252
- Minor: £67
- Resubmit: £67
- Design of traffic management: £316
- Installation of traffic management: signs and posts at term of maintenance contract actual costs, plus 10% staff time
- Traffic regulation orders on or for new development: highway's staff time, advertising, works at cost, legal fees plus duplication and postage as required
- Materials and works ordered on behalf of third parties - parish councils, for example: term maintenance contract actual costs, plus 10% staff time
Section 50 licence
- Opening of street or road for new service: £628
- Additional charge per 200m for works in excess of 200m: £172
- Opening of street or road for existing service repairs: £443
- Section 171 trial hole: £382
