Asset Management Plan - Newcastle City Council

Signs, Barriers & Street Furniture Life Cycle PlanTable 20.6.1 Routine Maintenance ActivitiesMaintenance Activity Maintenance Interval ResponsibilityRepair or replacement Adhoc reactive Street Managementof damaged sign, maintenanceTeambarrier, etc.20.6.2 Renewal/ReplacementRenewal/replacement work is comprised of major (planned) work that does notincrease the asset’s designed capacity, but restores, rehabilitates, replaces orrenews an existing asset to its original capacity. (Maintaining a ‘Steady State’)Many of the steady state maintenance activities for signs, barriers and streetfurniture comprise of the replacement of faulty or worn out equipment as part of aplanned carriageway or footway scheme rather than being an independentscheme.20.6.3 Creation/Acquisition/UpgradingCreation/Acquisition/Upgrading is major work that creates a new asset that didnot previously exist, or works that upgrade or improve an asset beyond itsexisting design capacity.Creation: The constantimprovement of the HighwayNetwork, particularly with regard tosafety, means that new signs,barriers and street furniture assetsare created on a regular basis. Suchwork being instigated by Planning &Transportation and EngineeringServices.Acquisition: Acquisition of sign, barrier & street furniture assets is normallyassociated with the taking up of maintenance responsibilities following newdevelopments, this is normally managed by the development control team usingSection.38 or 106 legal agreements.Upgrading: Upgrading activities are not regularly undertaken to the signs,barriers and street furniture asset, although some works are undertaken as aconsequence of the need to improve the Highway Network particularly in regardto safety.210