Apply to close a road

Closing a road for roadworks

We can temporarily close a road to traffic to allow road maintenance or other essential works to take place. For example, for a utility company to lay new gas, water, electricity or phone services.

You can ask us to close a road for roadworks by applying for a legal order.

Before you apply

Before applying to close a road for roadworks you should:

• consider if temporary traffic signals could be used instead of closing the road

• have consulted all residents, businesses, schools, parish councils, bus operators and statutory undertakers of street works who will be affected

• have you contacted a traffic management contractor for signs and barriers to warn road users of the closure and give diversions

Charges

There charge to close a road for roadworks is £1411. We’ll send you an invoice for this amount after applying, which you can pay online.

How to apply

For an emergency road closure, call us on 01226 773555 (24 hours).

For a routine closure, fill in our road closure application form and email this to ttro@barnsley.gov.uk. You need to do this at least six weeks before the planned start date of the closure.

What happens next

If we approve your application we'll issue the order and publish statutory notices on our website and in the Barnsley Chronicle to let people know about the closure.

We'll try to action your request in time for the closure to begin on the date you ask for.

Closing a road for an event, street party, parade or demonstration

You need to apply for our permission to close a road for an event such as a:

• demonstration

• parade

• military gathering

• remembrance event

• street market

• street party

You also need:

• public liability insurance to the value of £10million (as the organiser you're responsible for the safety of the event and road closure)

• permission from the police

• a legal order to temporarily close the road

• signs and barriers to warn road users of the closure and give alternative routes (you can get these from a traffic management contractor - see our information sheet for details)

Before you apply

Before you apply to close a road for an event, you should consider if:

• it can be held somewhere away from the road

• it can be held at a time when traffic flows are lower

• the whole road need to be closed, or just part of it

• traffic flow for access can continue

• all residents and businesses who will be affected by the road closure have been consulted (if we receive any valid objections, why might not agree to the road closure going ahead)

See our information sheet for more details.

How to apply

You can apply to close a road for an event by filling in our road closure for events application form and emailing this to streetworks@barnsley.gov.uk.

You need to give at least six weeks notice for us to process your application.

Closing a road permanently

If a road is no longer needed for public use, we can apply to the magistrates' court for an order to permanently close it under section 116 of the Highways Act 1980.

We don't have the power to close a road, street or footpath if it's privately owned or maintained.

Closing part of a road for development

We can close part of a road permanently to allow development to take place, providing the developer has, or may receive, planning permission. You can find this under section 247 or section 257 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

You can apply to permanently close part of a road for development on GOV.UK.