Dorset Highways management and performance

Find information on the council's strategic approach to managing its highways infrastructure.

Dorset Highways is responsible for a significant amount of infrastructure including; carriageways, footpaths, cycleways, traffic signals, signs, street lighting, safety fences, verges, bridges and public rights of way. 

Dorset Highways asset management plan (HAMP)

The Highways Asset Management Plan (HAMP) outlines the strategic approach to maintaining the infrastructure that Dorset Highways is responsible for. 

The Highways Asset Management Policy and Strategy document is a summary of the HAMP. It demonstrates how Dorset Highways has aligned its approach to management of its highway assets to the priorities set out in the Dorset Council Plan. It further documents how decisions have been made to determine investment strategies across all of our highway assets.

Highway Maintenance Plan

The Highway Maintenance Plan is a supporting document to the HAMP and outlines the current approach to maintaining our highway assets. It defines service levels for activities across the service.

The plan typically documents the revenue maintenance activities, which includes reactive responses (ie to potholes, flooding, emergencies) and cyclic activities (planned gully emptying).

The highways service is still working to this plan, however, due to the formation of the new Dorset Council it will be reviewed in the near future. 

Dorset Highways Service Plan

Dorset Highways Service Plan 2022 to 2024

Dorset Highways Performance

Performance across all aspects of the service is monitored and reported throughout the year. Our performance framework outlines how we measure the delivery of the highways service. 

Dorset Highways communications strategy

Our communications strategy outlines our commitment to engaging with our residents and keeping them informed about how we are managing the condition of our highway network.