Asset Management Plan - Newcastle City Council

Signs, Barriers & Street Furniture Life Cycle PlanThis risk can be mitigated by regular safety inspections and conditionassessments of all equipment, which lead to necessary repairs being carried outin a timely fashion, the carrying out of routine maintenance to preventdeterioration of the equipment and the introduction of robust procedures toensure that fault reports are dealt with in a timely fashion.20.8.2 Secondary risks include: The inability to maintain demandrequirements.This could result in:♦♦Inadequately signed routes,disruption to travelling public,The financial implications being:♦The cost of providing temporary signageWith the consequential costs being:♦♦♦poor public image,economic loss to businesses,hardship for disadvantaged20.9 Forward Works ProgrammeAs most maintenance work undertaken for these assets is adhoc reactivemaintenance there is no forward work programme in place, although a budgetarysum can be allocated for the annual programme based on historical data.A programme of major maintenance schemes, which may involve some repairsto these assets is in place but the specific works related to signs, barriers andstreet furniture is not costed separately.A programme of new works for the introduction of assets within traffic &transportation schemes is also in place these works being instigated by thePlanning & Transportation team and Engineering Services.20.10 Physical WorksGenerally works for revenue budgeted and minor capital projects are orderedthrough an internal agreement with the Newcastle City Council Highways &Traffic Signals section. In addition a Highway Construction Services frameworkpartnership has been entered into with Colas (North) Ltd and CumbrianIndustrials Ltd, for a period of two years with an optional third year, for theundertaking of specialist work and any work that cannot be sufficiently resourcedby HTS.214