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Helpful documents about SCC services:
Helpful documents about legal powers:
- Powers and Duties of Local Councils – advice from the Staffordshire Parish Council Association
Helpful documents about how to carry out small highways amenities tasks safely:
- When to apply for a Highway Licence or Permit
- Example Risk Assessment for Activities Within the Highway
- How to choose a Contractor
- Summary document – your options and what to consider on one page (designed)
- ‘Ink-friendly’ summary of highways tasks that parish council can do
- How to manage gritting on footpaths in the winter
- How to manage vegetation – grass cutting, weed spraying and hedge cutting information and method statement
- How to carry out changes to highways verges
- How to manage drainage on the highway
- How to manage street furniture
Helpful documents about how to carry out rights of way tasks safely:
- ‘Print/ink friendly’ version – the sorts of activities that you could get involved in
- General safety advice and tips about Right of Way tasks
- Maintaining/ installing gaps method statement
- Maintaining/ installing stiles method statement
- Maintaining / installing gates method statement
- Installing/ maintaining fingerposts and waymarks method statement
- Managing vegetation on rights of way method statement
- Liaising with landowners – a helpful guide
- Landowner Work Agreement Slip example
- An example of a pre- work site risk assessment – Rights of way
- Hazards guidance notes:
Helpful independent advice