Signing, lighting and guarding to the approved plan, with permits obtained before we start.
Finishing & Specialist
Core coverage
Commercial groundworks and civils packages across London and the South East.
All areas we cover
Finishing & Specialist
Core coverage
Commercial groundworks and civils packages across London and the South East.
All areas we coverAdopted highway alterations agreed with the local authority — accesses, footways, crossings and reinstatement, built to the highway authority’s specification.
Section 278 work is not just groundworks on a road. It is groundworks inside somebody else’s approval process, with their specification, their inspection regime and their timescales. The engineering is usually the easy part.
We work to the approved drawings and the authority’s specification, arrange the traffic management, and get the inspections booked so the works are signed off rather than left hanging.
Signing, lighting and guarding to the approved plan, with permits obtained before we start.
Inspections arranged at the right hold points so sign-off is not chased afterwards.
Pedestrian routes and access maintained throughout, not closed and forgotten.
Scope follows the approved drawings and the highway authority’s specification.
Vehicle accesses formed to the approved geometry and construction.
Footway construction, dropped kerbs and pedestrian crossings.
Kerb lines reset or realigned to the approved layout.
Gullies, connections and channel drainage within the highway.
Signing, lighting and guarding under the approved permit.
Road markings, signage and surfacing reinstated to specification.
The same sequence every time, so you know what happens next and who owns it.
We price from the approved drawings, then get the permits and traffic management plan in place before anything starts.
Signing, lighting and guarding installed to the approved plan, with pedestrian routes maintained.
Excavation and construction to the highway authority’s specified build-up and layer thicknesses.
Base and wearing course laid, kerbs set, then signage and road markings installed.
Authority inspection at the hold points, reinstatement completed, and the works signed off.
Accesses, footways and reinstatement.
New vehicle access and bellmouth
Footway construction
Kerb realignment
Highway drainage connection
Surfacing and wearing course
Reinstated and signed off
If yours is not here, call the office — you will get a straight answer, not a callback form.
01895 725125The agreement is between you and the highway authority, usually with your consultant. We build the approved works and deal with the authority on the construction side — permits, traffic management, inspections and sign-off.
We do, to the approved plan, including permits, signing, lighting and guarding, and maintaining pedestrian routes through the works.
Often they have to be, and the authority may require it. Night and weekend working is priced against the permit conditions rather than assumed either way.
The authority inspects at defined hold points. We book those into the sequence so the works progress with sign-off rather than stopping to wait for it.
Yes. Adoptable roads and drainage inside a development follow the same principle: the authority’s specification, their materials and their inspection regime.
Send the approved drawings and the programme. We will come back with a measured price, a traffic management approach and a start date we can hold.