As a Highway Authority, Kirklees Council has responsibility for co-ordinating all works on the highway to ensure that the Council’s obligations under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, Highways Act 1980, Traffic Management Act 2004 & the Kirklees Permit Scheme minimise the impact of road works on highway users, and to ensure that sites are safe whilst underway and that reinstatements are completed to an acceptable standard.

Kirklees Council’s Streetworks Team manages approximately 16,000 works permits per year on 1900km of road network through towns such as Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Holmfirth, and across the rural countryside and moorland.

The Streetworks Team also undertakes the coordination of activities for major investment projects such as the council led town centre regeneration schemes, the Transpennine Route Upgrade (rail), various statutory undertaker (utilities), council highway maintenance investment programmes, and public events.

The Stre...