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- Roads and Pavements
- Considerate Contractor Scheme
- Damaged and dangerous paving reporting
- Road works - Closures and Diversions
- Roads and Pavements - Access to property
- Roads and Pavements - Adverse Weather Plans
- Roads and Pavements - Damaged and Dangerous Paving
- Roads and Pavements - Maintenance
- Roads and Pavements - Markings, Signs and Traffic Calming Measures
- Roads and Pavements - New Developments
- Roads and Pavements - Permission to Occupy
- Roads and Pavements - Regulations and Limits
- Roads and Pavements - Road Permits
- Roads and pavements - disabled parking
- Roads and pavements - street trading
Considerate Contractor Scheme
Latest: The Considerate Contractor Scheme is on temporary hold at present. A review of the scheme is to be carried out, with a view to bringing the process back next financial year -2012/13.
To assist in the maintaining of West Lothian's Roads, West Lothian Council Road Services established a " Considerate Contractor" scheme to work in partnership with all Public Utilities Companies and Contractors.
All main utilities e.g. BT, Scottish Power, Scottish Water etc all signed up to this idea of working together. No contractor can work for WLC without adhering to the Schemes high demands for quality and customer consideration. The scheme is now in its third year and has become a great success.
The Voluntary Code of Practice aims to ensure that inconvenience and disruption to residents, businesses and road users are kept to an absolute minimum, and to improve the co-ordination of all kinds of works and events on the public road network, and more importantly improve public safety.
The Considerate Contractor Road works scheme aims to reduce inconvenience, frustration and in some cases unnecessary danger to road users and pedestrians, which can be caused by work on roads and footpaths.
Inspectors for the Roads Services department and trained members of the public (Lay Assessors) carry out routine inspections of road works sites throughout the county and results are reported on a monthly basis, for the most recent results please use the links below. At the end of each year the top contractors are rewarded for their hard work and dedication to the scheme at the annual Considerate Contractors Awards Ceremony.
As part of the strong partnership working arrangements we have with the contractors, the contractors sponsor the ceremony. We would like to thank all of our sponsors who help to contribute to the success of the day.
Recent sponsors of the Awards Ceremonies included Ritchie Brothers, T & N Gilmartin, Crummock, Stirling Council, Maclays Civil Engineering, Tayside Contracts, M & M Road Surfacing, GMJV and Lightways.
2010 / 2011 Monthly Results
Final Results 2010/ 2011
Contractor Performance Monitoring
Lay Assessors Performance Monitoring
2009 / 2010 Awards
The annual awards for 2009/10 were held on the 4th June and as in previous years was well attended by Contractors and Utility Companies, who continue to support the event. The 2009/10 Award winners were
- Best Utility Contractor: Gilmartin
- Best Roads Contractor: West Lothian Council Roads Operations
- Most Improved Contractor: C-Plan
- Peoples Award: West Lothian Council Roads Operations
- Most Consistent Contractor: Bethall / Enterprise
2009 / 2010 Considerate Contractor Photographs (new window)
2008 / 2009 Awards
The awards ceremony for 2008/09 was held on the 29th May in the Cairn Hotel, and was very well attended by Roads Contractors and Utility Companies - both of whom we thank for their continued support of this event. The Award winners on the day were:
- Best Utility Contractor: Gilmartin
- Best Roads Contractor: Crummock
- Most Improved Contractor: Turriff
- Peoples Award: Crummock
For more information and to find out how the awards were decided please use the link below to view the Considerate Contractor Awards Report.
updated 07/09/11
