Documents
The HAUC(UK) App
The HAUC(UK) App, designed to give you the most up to date access to safety information when undertaking street and road works, whether in the office or on site.
View AppLane Rental Schemes Guidance for English Authorities
This document provides guidance to English highway authorities who wish to develop proposals to operate lane rental schemes. It replaces guidance issued by the Department for Transport in January 2012.
The Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways – 4th Edition
An Overview of the Key Changes to SROH for Managers and Supervisors [Prepared by the HAUC (UK) SROH Working Party]. Coming into force as statutory guidance on 10th May 2021
Supplementary Guidance for the Safety at Street Works and Road Works: A Code of Practice 2013
This guidance note sets out procedures for managing street works, road works & associated maintenance activities wherever they may impact on walkers and cyclists. It provides supplementary guidance to the Safety at Street Works and Road Works: A Code of Practice 2013 (the Red Book).
Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) - Briefing Paper
This short paper explains what Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) are, how they are made and the various uses to which they can be put.
Safety Working Group Report January 2020
Action refresh of current code to include additional cycle safety advice and to included the FAQ’s.
SROH Strategic Review. Legacy document.
This document presents key amendments included within the 4th Edition of the Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Highways (SROH). In addition, it includes proposed amendments that were broadly supported, but could not be actioned within the project timescales.
Street works in England - Briefing Paper
This paper sets out the rights of utility companies and others to undertake street works and the powers available to street authorities to manage and mitigate those works.
Specification and Operational Requirements for Footway Boards, Driveway Boards, Footway Ramps and Road Plates (Advice Note No 2018-01)
This section contains the performance requirements for footway boards, footway ramps, driveway boards and road plates. It includes requirements and guidance for temporarily bridging excavations to maintain pedestrian and vehicular access using ramps, boards and plates. It complements the red book.
Broadband Infrastructure Installation (Advice Note No 2017 02)
This note provides guidance for coordination of street works for High Speed broadband network build and upgrade, in particular cabinet installation and is aimed at authorities in England only.
Carriageway Incursion (TM Notification) England and Wales (Advice Note No 2017 01)
This advice note is written as a new section for inclusion within Chapter 12 of the Code of Practice for the Coordination of Street Works and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters and the Code of Practice for Permits.
Standard Permit Response Codes (Advice Note No 2016 02)
This document is intended to be reviewed on a yearly basis. It may be decided that more or different codes are required once users have experience of using this document. The text for the specified codes is suggested and can be changed by Permit Authorities if preferred, the code itself is the crucial element to enable reporting.
HAUC(UK) Common principles of good collaboration v3
This summary of the common principles of good collaboration has been produced drawing primarily on the previous winners of the NJUG Minimise Disruption Award (previously the NJUG Partnership Award) citing examples of best practice. It is commended to all utilities, highway and road authorities and their respective road and street works contractors by Joint Chairs of HAUC(UK) Bob Gallienne and Jerry McConkey.
Report Template for the Evaluation of Permit Schemes (Advice Note No 2016 01)
This new regulation makes provision for the content and timing of permit scheme evaluations which states that permit schemes be evaluated following the first, second and third anniversary of the scheme’s commencement and then following every third anniversary. It also requires that the outcome of each evaluation be made available within three months of the relevant anniversary.
Clarification of Use of ETON6 for Defective Apparatus(S81s) (Advice Note No 2015 Defect)
This note provides good practice advice and guidance for utility company and highway authority system users when managing Defective Apparatus/S81s within their respective ETON system; a subject which came high on the list of issues following the system group survey.
HAUC (UK) Constitution (Revised for 2015) (Advice Note No 2015 01)
Members of the Group have made a commitment to work together within HAUC(UK) and with Regional HAUCs, NIRAUC, Welsh HAUC and RAUC(Scotland) colleagues to develop and deliver a more effective organisation that supports the road and street works community in delivering for the public interest.
Reinstatement of Micro-Trenches (Advice Note No 2014 04)
This advice note on micro-trenching supplements the guidance document produced by the Department for Culture Media and Sport in November 2011, and is a reinstatement specification designed to support undertakers and authorities should they agree to adopt micro-trenching as part of an installation methodology.
Code of Practice for Inspections: Defects Not Causing Danger Inspections (Advice Note No 2014 03)
The Highway Authorities and Utilities Committee [HAUC(UK)] recognised that the current 2002 edition of the Inspections Code of Practice (Code) is not clear regarding chargeable authority inspections associated with defective reinstatements not causing danger so agreed to produce an Advice Note to help explain the procedures. The Code will continue to undergo a revision by a new HAUC England working group which will include a clearer procedure for dealing with defective reinstatements not causing danger. This advice note should be accepted as current guidance until the revised Code is published by HAUC England. The Code will continue to be non-statutory.
HAUC(UK) Guidance Document On Applying The New Section 74 (S74) Regulations (Advice Note No 2014 02)
The objective of this HAUC(UK) Advice Note, which is based upon the JAG (UK) guidance document 1/2013, is to provide authorities and undertakers with guidance on the changes to section 74 Regulations introduced in October 2012, to provide a consistent authority approach and to assist in the application of a section 74 charging regime. The 2012 Regulations amended regulation 3 and substituted regulation 9 of the 2009 Regulations.
Guidance Note on Town Centre Redevelopments and Underground Services and Apparatus (Advice Note No 2013 04)
This Advice Note is aimed at local planning and highway authorities, design consultants, developers, town planners, architects and all organisations that are involved in town centre redevelopment schemes. Its purpose is to try to reduce the adverse impact that maintenance and other works to underground apparatus can have on new town centre developments and the significantly increased costs and safety risks associated with such activity.
Guidance Note Incentivising Work Planning outside of Traffic Sensitive Periods (Advice Note No 2013 02)
One of the aims of a Permit Scheme is to allow better coordination of promoter activities when competing for time and space on the highway, and to minimise traffic disruption on the network (Permits CoP Clause 2.1) at the same time.
