Road Safety Inspections West Buckland

“Please provide the following information in relation to the West Buckland, Upcott Cross to Stoodleigh Cross, (51°04’34.2″N 3°54’39.5″W):-

1)    A copy of your current road maintenance policy relating to that road.   

Devon County Council’s Highways Safety Policy is publicly available on our website.

2)    Details of the intended frequency of road safety inspections.

Carriageway
Maintenance Category Frequency of Inspections
3 National Primary route 1 month
4 County Primary route 1 month
5 Secondary County route 1 month
6 Local distributor 6 month
7 Collector road 6 month
8 Minor collector road annual
9 Service road annual
10 Minor service road annual
11 Minor lane Every 2 years

For further detail, please refer to Devon County Council’s Highways Safety Policy on our website.

The road in question is a Category 9 Service Road, inspected annually.  The Road/Section Number is ‘R’

3)    How these inspections should be conducted

Carriageway safety inspections are undertaken on a driven basis, with a driver and inspector, at a speed enabling the inspector to observe road surface condition and other associated defects.  Please refer to Devon County Council’s Highways Safety Policy on our Website.

4)    Maximum time between identification of a defect and repairs being carried out.

This relates to carriageway potholes:

Maintenance Category 3 to 6

Immediate Action – Record.

Temporary Action – fill within 24 hours.

Permanent repair within 7 days if permanent material has not been used under previous action.

Maintenance Category 7 to 10

Immediate Action – Record.

Temporary Action – None.

Permanent repair within 7 days

The defect investigatory criteria adopted in relation to the identification of carriageway safety potholes on all inspected categories of road during safety inspections is as follows:-

“Carriageway Defect – Pothole – A pothole (sharp edged depression or void) is a safety defect when it is over 40 mm deep and it is greater than 300mm in any horizontal direction.”

Also refer to Devon County Council’s Highways Safety Policy on our website.

5)    The road repair history for that road over the past year including dates of all safety inspections between 28th October 2019 and 25th December 2019.

No inspections took place during the time period specified.  Please refer to Road Inspection Report provided for the time period 31st October 2018 to 1st December 2019.

6)    Details of how carriageway safety inspections are undertaken (walked or driven, speed of inspection vehicle etc)

Carriageway safety inspections are undertaken on a driven basis, with a driver and inspector, at a speed enabling the inspector to observe road surface condition and other associated defects.  Please refer to Devon County Council’s Highways Safety Policy on our Website.

7)    Details of all carriageway defects identified, with description, date and time

Please see the Road Inspection Report provided for the time period 31st October 2018 to 1st December 2019.

8)    Details of how the authority handled these defects, what repairs were undertaken and the time between the identification of each defect and a repair being carried out.”

Please see the Road Inspection Report provided for the time period 1st October 2018 to 31st December 2019.