Roads, highways and maintenance

Warning

We are able to receive and deal with highway enquiries and applications through our online forms as normal, but due to a technical issue, customers have not been receiving automated email notifications with updates since Tuesday 15 April.

If you need to speak to someone about an enquiry or application, please contact us.

Report a problem

Comment on a temporary traffic order

Apply for a dropped kerb

Live traffic updates

Roadworks and closures

Track a reported problem

Improvements

Request a new improvement to the highway and find existing highway improvements in Dorset.

Transport planning

Transport Development Management, Local Transport Plan, Bus Service Improvement Plan and improving North/South connections.

Street lighting

Information about street lights, reporting faulty street lights and part night lighting

Highway licences

You need a licence to place anything on, in or over the public highway.

Services we offer

Our services include MOTs, traffic cones to hire or buy, sign design and manufacture, roundabout advertising, driveway white lines, transport modelling and traffic surveys.

Road safety

Find out about Bikeablility cycle training, driver and motorbike training, school crossing patrols, speed indicator devices, and view collision and casualty data.

Permit scheme for roadworks and street works

Dorset Council permit scheme for road works and street works, and traffic sensitive streets

Maintenance

Maintenance of roads, bridges, drainage and manhole covers, verges, trees and hedges and a map of maintained highways

Traffic management

View and comment on TROs, request new traffic management measures, find out about speed limits, traffic calming, weight restrictions, lights and crossings.

Gritting

Road gritting and salting in Dorset, salt bins, snow clearance and the Dorset Highways Winter Service Policy and Operational Plan.

Adoptions

We manage design approval, construction planning, site inspection, enforcement and adoption built by developers.

Damage claims

How to make a claim if you have suffered damage to your property, vehicle or sustained a personal injury because of a defect on one of our highways.

Highway licence and service charges

Our licence and service chargers for the current financial year.

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