Traffic management in Bexhill-on-Sea

East Sussex County Council is the highway authority for Bexhill-on-Sea: in two-tier East Sussex, roads are run by the county council, not Rother. Trunk roads are managed by National Highways.

Almost every English highway authority now runs a permit scheme under the Traffic Management Act 2004, so works on the road need a permit, applied for through the government's Street Manager service. Minor works usually need 3 working days' notice, standard works 10 and major works 3 months.

In and around Bexhill-on-Sea, the A259 carry most of the through traffic. On roads like these, queue lengths decide the method: we set signal timings to keep traffic moving and suggest night or off-peak work where it helps.

Around 44,000 people live in Bexhill-on-Sea. On busier streets, keeping footways open and queues short matters as much as the works themselves.