Part 3 - Responsibility for functions
Below are the responsibility for functions.
- Introduction
- Section 1 - The function of the Full Council
- Section 2 - Local choice functions
- Section 3 - Full Council functions of a regulatory nature (non-cabinet functions)
- 3.1 - Appeals committee
- 3.2 - Appointments committee
- 3.3 - Constitution committee
- 3.4 - Pensions committee
- 3.5 - Pensions board
- 3.6 - Planning Committee
- Council Regulatory Functions
- 3.7 - Safety and Licensing committee
- 3.8 - Commons and Rights of Way committee
- 3.9 - Traffic Regulation committee
- 3.10 - Audit and Governance committee
- 3.11 - Scrutiny committees
- 3.12 - Health and Wellbeing Board
- 3.13 - Gloucestershire Police and Crime Panel
- Section 4 - Responsibility for Executive functions
- Section 5 - Scheme of delegation
- Section 6 - Joint arrangements
- Section 7 - General statement of policy
The duties of the Traffic Regulation Committee are set out in Table 3.08.
Table 3.08: The duties of the Traffic Regulation Committee
1. |
Power to permit deposit of a builders’ skip on the highway. |
Section 139 of the Highways Act 1980 (c.66). |
2. |
Power to license planting, retention and maintenance of trees, etc, in part on highway. |
Section 142 of the Highways Act 1980. |
3. |
Power to authorise erection of stiles, etc, on footpaths or bridleways. |
Section 147 of the Highways Act 1980. |
4. |
Power to license works in relation to buildings, etc, which obstruct the highway. |
Section 169 of the Highways Act 1980. |
5. |
Power to consent to temporary deposits or excavations in streets. |
Section 171 of the Highways Act 1980. |
6. |
Power to dispense with obligation to erect hoarding or fence. |
Section 172 of the Highways Act 1980. |
7. |
Power to restrict the placing of rails, beams, etc, over highways. |
Section 178 of the Highways Act 1980. |
8. |
Power to consent to construction of cellars, etc, under street. |
Section 179 of the Highways Act 1980. |
9. |
Power to consent to the making of openings into cellars, etc, under streets, and pavement lights and ventilators. |
Section 180 of the Highways Act 1980. |
10. |
Duty to assert and protect the rights of the public to use and enjoyment of highways. |
Section 130 of the Highways Act 1980. |
11. |
Power to apply for variation of order under Section 130B of the Highways Act 1980. |
Section 130B(7) of the Highways Act 1980. |
12. |
Power to authorise temporary disturbance of surface of footpath bridleway or restricted byway. |
Section 135 of the Highways Act 1980. |
13. |
Power to temporarily divert footpaths, bridleways or restricted byways. |
Section 135A of the Highways Act 1980. |
14. |
Functions relation to the making good of damage and the removal of obstructions. |
Section 135B of the Highways Act 1980. |
15. |
Powers relating to the removal of things so deposited on highways as to be a nuisance. |
Section 149 of the Highways Act 1980 |
16. |
To respond to consultation upon executive proposals for traffic regulation orders to which valid objections have been received and not been resolved or withdrawn. |
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Traffic Regulation Committee Membership
9 County Councillors.
County Councillors shall have completed training approved by the Monitoring Officer before taking part in decisions by this Committee.