Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council Permit Scheme

11.1 Condition classes

The Permit Scheme will use the Statutory Guidance for Highway Authority Permit Schemes - Permit Scheme Conditions March 2015 and its successors. In deciding which conditions should be applied the Permit Authority will consider the proposed activity's potential to cause disruption.  Where possible, conditions attached to a permit will provide flexibility for the promoter by requiring an outcome rather than stipulating the method by which the work must be carried out.

11.2 Breaching of Conditions

If the Permit Authority considers that an activity promoter is failing to comply with the conditions of a permit, then it may revoke the permit. Before revoking a permit, the Permit Authority will contact the activity promoter to warn them of its intention and allow the situation to be discussed.

Where it appears to the Permit Authority that a condition has been breached and that the activity promoter or a person contracted to act on its behalf has therefore committed an offence, it will take action as described in Section 17.

11.3 Avoidance of conflict with other legislation

The Permit Authority will endeavour to ensure that any conditions applied to a permit do not conflict with the activity promoter's obligations under separate legislation. The activity promoter should bring such conflicts to the attention of the Permit Authority, who will then be responsible for resolving the issue with the other body and amending the permit conditions accordingly. If the activity promoter has safety concerns about conditions set by the Permit Authority, it should raise these concerns with the Permit Authority and, if necessary, challenge the permit condition

All parties should promote safe working practices and act reasonably and responsibly.

11.4 Permit Authority Imposed Conditions

The Permit Authority may request that further national conditions are applied prior to granting the permit.  The impositions of such conditions will be in full consultation with the promoter of the activity and they will be included in the modified application and the subsequent permit.

The Permit Authority may also vary the conditions on a permit after it has been granted as an Authority imposed variation.  There will be no fee for these variations as set out in Section 12.4.

11.5 Imposing Conditions upon Highway Authority Works Permits

The Highway Authority will be subject to the same conditions in the same form and for the same reason.