{"id":18001,"date":"2018-02-03T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=18001"},"modified":"2018-02-03T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T15:50:57","slug":"ihbc-cpd-boost-know-your-section-278-agreements-see-dbw-on-works-to-existing-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=18001","title":{"rendered":"IHBC CPD boost: Know your Section 278 agreements? See DBW on \u2018Works to existing highways\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DBW_banner-e1517673028586.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18002\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DBW_banner-e1517673028586.png\" alt=\"DBW banner\" width=\"300\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>A recent posting on DBW explores how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1980\/66\/section\/278\">Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980<\/a>\u00a0allows a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Developer\">developer<\/a>\u00a0to carry out works to the public\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Highway\">highway<\/a>, which is generally necessary where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Planning_permission\">planning permission<\/a>\u00a0has been granted for a development that requires improvements to, or changes to, public\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Highways\">highways<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>DBW writes:<\/p>\n<p>The agreement between the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Highway\">highway<\/a>\u00a0authority and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Developer\">developer<\/a>\u00a0is called a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Section_278_agreement\">Section 278 Agreement<\/a>, and it may allow for items such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roundabouts.<\/li>\n<li>Priority junctions.<\/li>\n<li>Junctions with traffic lights.<\/li>\n<li>Right turn lanes.<\/li>\n<li>Improved facilities for pedestrians and cyclists.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to existing junctions.<\/li>\n<li>Traffic calming measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Highway\">highway<\/a>\u00a0authority will be either the Secretary of State for Transport or the local\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Highway\">highway<\/a> authority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designingbuildings.co.uk\/wiki\/Section_278_agreement_-_works_to_existing_highways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent posting on DBW explores how Section 278 of the Highways Act 1980\u00a0allows a\u00a0developer\u00a0to carry out works to the public\u00a0highway, which is generally necessary where\u00a0planning permission\u00a0has been granted for a development that requires improvements to, or changes to, public\u00a0highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18003,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18001\/revisions\/18003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}