Historically a lengthsman was a person tasked with keeping a length of road neat, tidy and passable. This was usually a road between nearby villages. In a more modern sense, it is someone appointed by a parish or town council to undertake small highway maintenance works within a specified area, usually the parish or town.
What can a lengthsman do?
• Clear gully grates • Dig out blocked gullies • Clear verge grips • Clear headwalls • Rod blocked drains (if practicable) • Advise landowners and frontages when their ditches need clearing • Clear ditches with prior agreement from the Highway Manager Vegetation Clearance • Remove vegetation obstructing signs • Remove vegetation at junction visibility splays • Pulling/cutting of noxious weeds following a site-specific approval from the Highways Manager • Side out footways to normal width and spread arisings on verge where possible • Negotiate with frontages for them to cut back overhanging vegetation • Clearing of overgrown bridleways • Clean dirty signs and retighten/refit brackets• Snow clearance and gritting/salting by hand • Removal of illegal fly tipping • Maintaining and repainting of Highways-approved visibility fencing • Repairs to minor potholes in the footway • Keep surrounds of benches free of vegetation and the benches kept in good repair • Other work with specific approval of the Highways Manager.
W S Gardens become Lengthsman for WCC
W S Gardens is an approved Parish Council Lengthsman having attended the Parish Council Lengthsman Course organised and run by Warwickshire County Council and gained a certificate. (Click here to view)
Below is a reproduction of the announcement in the local press. (Rugby Observer)
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W S Gardens Ltd.
The Old Parlour Building
Grove Farm
Wolds Lane
Wolvey
Leicestershire
LE10 3LL
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