Regions line up to follow East Anglia’s example

28 May 2008
 
A common permit scheme across East Anglia is on course to be implemented next April, with other regions looking to follow suit, Surveyor has learned.

Dave Capon, Suffolk County Council’s street works manager, said he was confident the East Anglian scheme would go ahead on schedule.

It was proposed in January, and approved by the Regional Transport Board. Only Essex County Council was wavering, with the proposal still to go through the cabinet process.

The draft scheme would see the introduction of a common permit scheme, with local authorities maintaining flexibility to respond to local conditions. Capon said everybody was positive about the scheme, which was an ‘ideal way to show the Government we’re managing the network’.

The East Midlands region is looking to introduce a common permit scheme to cut out duplication, but no formal plans had been drawn up, according to Matthew Lugg, Leicestershire’s director of highways. The West Midlands shire councils were ‘signed up to the principle’ of introducing a common permit scheme, and were currently trying to engage a private sector partner to implement the system, said Roger Newham, chief transport planner at Warwickshire County Council, which is leading the project alongside Staffordshire.

They hope to have a scheme up and running within the next two years. The region’s metropolitan councils are also looking into setting up a similar scheme.

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