Environment and transport

Promoting prosperity and development while protecting and improving our natural and historic environment.

Efficient, effective management of the county’s transport infrastructure is one of our key responsibilities.  The availability of a safe, serviceable transport network is essential to allow ready access to the county’s towns and villages, as well as providing smooth passage through the county for business, tourism and for residents.  The network provides access to services, links between settlements, as well as access from towns and villages into our beautiful countryside.

In this section

Environment, waste and recycling

Information and advice on how we can help Suffolk become the greenest county.

  1. Carbon emissions
  2. Ecological services
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Lorry Management

Working with freight and haulage companies to ensure that lorries use the most suitable routes and roads to travel through or deliver goods in Suffolk.

  1. Abnormal loads
  2. Weight limits
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Managing traffic

Investigating traffic problems on Suffolk's roads and introducing appropriate traffic management schemes

  1. Keep clear, H and yellow box markings
  2. Parking
  3. Pedestrian crossings
  4. Traffic signals and other lit signs
  5. Traffic signs
  6. Waiting and loading restrictions
  7. Walking and cycling to school
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Planning and Buildings

Contains pages dealing with planning applications, conservation and listed buildings and minerals and waste development.

  1. Conservation and Listed Buildings
  2. Enterprise Zone
  3. Key Documents and Archive
  4. Land Drainage
  5. Major Infrastructure Projects
  6. Minerals and Waste Development Framework
  7. Planning Applications
  8. Planning Obligations
  9. Spatial Planning
  10. Suffolk Green Building Network
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Public rights of way

Public rights of way provide a healthy, safe and sustainable way to access the countryside and other local services.

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Public transport

It is our aim to secure an effective framework of passenger transport services for the whole of Suffolk, in partnership with commercial providers.

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Road Safety

We aim to reduce casualties in Suffolk and increase road safety awareness through Education, Enforcement and Engineering.

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Roads, pavements, bridges and cycleways

Providing information on how we provide and maintain roads, pavements, bridges and cycleways in Suffolk.

  1. Bridges
  2. Cycling
  3. Dropped Kerbs (vehicular accesses)
  4. Highway emergencies, including spillages on the highway
  5. Obstructions on roads and footways
  6. Road Safety
  7. Road adoption and naming
  8. Road and pavement maintenance
  9. Roadworks
  10. Roadworks - temporary closures and diversions
  11. Street parties and other events restricting the highway
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Street lighting and other lit equipment

We manage, maintain and repair most streetlights and other lit equipment on roads and pavements in Suffolk.

  1. Street lights in my area
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Transport Planning

Information on the county council's local transport plan and other transport policies, projects and studies.

  1. Local Transport Plan
  2. Transport Projects
  3. Transport Studies
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