Request a highway improvement
If you live or work in South Gloucestershire you can make suggestions for improvements to the management and safety of roads, footpaths and cycling routes.
Examples of improvements include:
- pedestrian crossings such as zebra, pelican etc.
- cycle lanes
- traffic calming
- speed limits
- waiting restrictions – to request these use the form on our yellow lines and keep clear markings page
Requests for waiting restrictions will only be considered where there is clear evidence of regular access problems for waste and recycling lorries.
To request a dropped kerb crossing point for pedestrians visit our request a pedestrian dropped kerb page.
How to make a request
First you should check to make sure the same or similar request has not already been accepted for consideration. To do this, use the local transport priority lists at the bottom of the page.
The next step is to contact a local ward councillor to gain written support for your proposal. This should be a councillor of the ward in which you are requesting the improvement.
We will not accept requests that are submitted without evidence of councillor support.
Town and parish council requests
Town and parish councils can also submit requests for highway improvements. If a proposal is viable, the applying council must fund the investigation.
It costs approximately £5,000 to investigate simple proposals while complex proposals could cost more. The exact figure will be provided.
An invoice will be sent to the town or parish council and once funds have been received, the scheme will move onto the investigation list.
Paying for an investigation does not guarantee that the scheme will go ahead.
Submit a request
Read our application guidance notes and then complete the request form (Word).
Email your completed form to transportservices@southglos.gov.uk.
What happens next
Requests must pass several stages of assessment and selection to progress to being built.
You can find out more in our guide to the assessment process.
Keeping track of your proposal
Once a year, usually around April, we publish our local transport priority list. This shows how accepted proposals are progressing.
The list is split into 2 parts:
- schemes competing for investigation
- schemes competing for implementation
These are available to download in several formats:
View the current investigation and implementation lists in Open Document Spreadsheet format (ODS).
Alternatively you can view the current investigation and implementation lists as PDFs.