These activities include:
- placing skips on the highway
- erecting or dismantling scaffolding or hoarding
- placing cranes
- cherry pickers and mobile platforms on the highway
- and the use of temporary traffic signals.
- a licence can also be issued to excavate in the highway, to place or repair apparatus in the highway.
Streetworks also issue Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders for road closures or parking prohibitions for both road works and events.
How to apply
Download an application pack, complete it in full (using the checklist where applicable) and email it to streetworks@conwy.gov.uk
Send your payment by cheque or postal order, made out to Conwy County Borough Council:
Streetworks
Environment, Roads & Facilities
PO Box 1
CONWY
LL30 9GN
Highway Licences
| Licence name | Description | Licence cost | Processing time | Application pack |
|---|
| Crane, cherry and mobile platform |
To use one of the named platforms on the highway / footway |
£100 |
3 working days (minimum) |
Apply for a Crane, cherry and mobile platform licence |
| Scaffold licence |
Scaffold placement on property on side of highway/ footway |
£56 + £12.20 parking restriction
(£90 retrospective for non-licence) |
2 working days |
Apply for a Scaffold licence |
| Section 50 licence |
To serve one residential dwelling with 1 piece of apparatus |
£460 |
15 working days (minimum) |
Apply for a Section 50 licence
|
| Section 50 (Dual Residential) |
To serve two or more dwellings houses and residential development flats / maisonettes |
£710 + £71 per unit |
15 working days (minimum) |
Apply for a Section 50 licence
|
| Section 50 (Non-Residential) |
To place 2 new pieces of apparatus in 1 trench (e.g. foul & surface water) |
£685 |
15 working days (minimum) |
Apply for a Section 50 licence
|
| Section 171 licence |
To repair or replace existing apparatus |
£289 |
15 working days (minimum) |
Apply for a Section 171 licence |
| Section 171b licence |
To deposit building materials / plant on highway |
£112 |
5 working days |
Apply for a Section 171b licence |
| Skip licence |
Skip placement on the highway |
£38+ £12.20 Parking restriction
(£90 retrospective for non-licence)
|
2 working days |
Apply for a Skip licence |
Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders (TTROs)
| Licence type | Period of time that the licence will cover | Cost | Application pack |
|---|
|
By Notice (if your licence is needed for 3 days or less)
|
3 days or less
|
£575
|
Apply By Notice
|
|
By Order (if your licence needed for a maximum of 18 months)
|
Maximum of 18 months
|
£2,010
|
Apply By Order
|
|
Emergency Notice (if your licence is required immediately)
|
Maximum of 21 days, followed by possible 18 month order
|
£860
|
Apply for an Emergency Notice
|
|
Town Police Clauses
(not-for-profit charitable/civic event)
|
Maximum 1 day
|
No charge (as processing is seen as the Council's contribution towards the event)
|
Apply Town Police Clauses
|
|
Special Events
(large scale event or race)
|
|
£2,010
|
Apply for Special Event
|
|
Temporary Traffic Control (Lights)
|
N/A
|
No charge
|
Apply for Temporary Traffic Control
|