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Applications

Here you will find the information you need to apply for a Blue Badge, vehicle crossing/dropped kerb or a street party. If you are a contractor, you will find information on applying for a licence for skips, scaffolding and more.

Highway and related applications

As a resident wishing to suggest new safety related improvements, including new signage, please contact your local councillor. If they support your suggestion they can raise a scheme request to your Local Highway Panel. To see more information about what types of requests can be raised please visit the Local Highway Panel pages.

Apply for a blue badge

A Blue Badge allows some disabled people to park closer to their destination, as they are less able to walk long distances or take public transport

Apply for a disabled parking bay

This is a parking space on a public road which is marked by a white line around a wheelchair sign, or around the word ‘disabled’

Apply for an older or disabled persons bus pass

If you live in England and are of retirement age or an eligible disabled person, you are entitled to an English National Concessionary Bus Pass.

Apply for a new or extend a vehicle crossing or dropped kerb

A vehicle crossing, or dropped kerb, is when a kerb is lowered and the footpath strengthened, to let vehicles move between roads and properties

Apply to have a street event

Holding a street event for national and local occasions is welcomed by Essex County Council.

Apply to hang seasonal decorations from a lamp post

Individuals, groups and business can apply to hang seasonal decorations; banners or hanging baskets on or over the public highway

Apply to have a skip or scaffolding

You must be a licenced skip or scaffolding contractor, with proof of public liability insurance to £10 million to apply for a skip or scaffold licence

Apply for Section 50 Street Works licence

A Section 50 Street Works Licence application is required when a person or organisation wishes to place new apparatus under publicly maintained highway, which includes verge, footway and carriageway.

Applying for temporary traffic light signals (multi-way lights)

To be able to place temporary traffic signals on the highway you are required to apply for a licence from the local highway authority

Apply for road opening notice (book road space)

A private company wishing to work or open the public highway for any reason, must have a road opening notice in place from Essex Highways

Apply for a development management road opening notice

Development Management sits outside the Essex Permit Scheme and therefore road space needs to be booked using the Development Management Road Opening Notice Form

Apply for a temporary traffic regulation order

A Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) is made by us when it is necessary to temporarily stop or limit vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic along the highway

Application to temporarily close a Public Right of Way

A Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) will be required if a Public Right of Way needs to be closed due to planned works

Apply for a Highway Status Enquiry

Confirmation of highway adoption and highway boundary plans and nearby road scheme proposals

Apply for a permanent diversion or extinguishments

Permanent changes to Public Rights of Way may be made using a Public Path Order made under the Highways Act or The Town and Country Planning Act