24/7 cover · Nationwide from Oxfordshire
The South East · home counties
Commuter volumes, motorway corridors and a dozen different highway authorities in one region. We handle the design, the approvals and the crews across all of them, so a multi-county programme stays one contract.
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Hertfordshire · multi-authority approvals · high-speed 12D capability · 24/7 call-out · £10m public liability.
25
Years in traffic management
~300
Operatives & staff
~150
Lorries, vans & cars
£10m
Public liability cover
24/7
Cover, including call-outs
Local coverage
Our South East coverage runs from Berkshire and Buckinghamshire round through Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Hampshire — Reading, Slough, Maidenhead, High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Milton Keynes, Watford, Guildford, Woking, Reigate, Maidstone, Canterbury, Ashford, Brighton, Crawley, Basingstoke, Winchester and the towns between them.
The defining feature is administrative rather than physical: a single programme can cross four or five highway authorities, each with its own permit scheme, notice expectations, conditions and preferences. Running that through separate local suppliers multiplies your interfaces and your risk.
We work it as one contract from our Oxfordshire base, with around 300 operatives and around 150 vehicles to allocate, so crews reach South East sites for early starts and night shifts without depending on a single depot's capacity.
The work is a mix of motorway and trunk corridor schemes on the M3, M4, M20, M23, M25, M40, A3, A2 and A27, commuter-town street works, housing and commercial development accesses across the growth areas, utility and telecoms programmes, and event and estate work in the countryside between.
Services in the South East
The whole range across the region, with one point of contact regardless of which county your next phase falls in.
One contract covering every South East county on your programme, instead of a different local firm per authority.
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Sector Scheme 12D works on the region's motorways and dual carriageways, delivered by ticketed crews in approved windows.
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Closures and contraflows designed around commuter peaks and diversion routes that will actually take the traffic.
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Permit applications and TTROs across multiple South East authorities, each to its own scheme and notice periods.
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Portable and vehicle-actuated signals for busy home-counties junctions, installed and maintained throughout.
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Stop-go and convoy working on rural routes, plus compliant pedestrian arrangements in town centres.
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Scheme-specific CAD drawings prepared to each authority's expectations rather than a single generic template.
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Night shifts on commuter corridors plus 24/7 rapid response across the region.
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Traffic management coordination across multi-phase, multi-county programmes, with incursion prevention where risk demands it.
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Local conditions
The region's problems come from density of demand rather than difficulty of terrain: too much traffic, too many authorities and too little tolerance for delay.
South East corridors carry heavy commuter volumes morning and evening, and authorities protect those peaks tightly. Many routes are effectively unavailable between the early morning and mid-evening.
That pushes works into nights and weekends, and it makes installation and removal speed part of the design rather than an afterthought.
Each county and unitary authority runs its own permit scheme with its own notice expectations, drawing requirements, conditions and attitudes to closure versus signals.
Submitting the same drawing to all of them is how programmes lose weeks. Each submission is prepared for the authority receiving it.
Works near junctions on the M25, M23, M20, M3, M4 and M40 can involve National Highways as well as the local authority, and slip roads and junction approaches carry high speeds with short decision distances.
High-speed arrangements need correct taper lengths, safety zones, advance signing and 12D-ticketed crews. There is no partial version of that which is still safe.
Sustained housing and commercial growth across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent and Sussex means long-duration site accesses onto busy roads and arrangements that need revising as sites progress.
These schemes degrade over months — signs disappear, barriers move, ground protection shifts — so maintenance and inspection are what keep them compliant, not the original installation.
Historic town centres in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire sit alongside post-war and modern estates, so excavation conditions and street geometry vary widely across a single utility programme.
Older streets bring unexpected apparatus and growing excavations; newer estates bring narrow adopted roads, parked cars and turning heads where large vehicles cannot manoeuvre.
Coastal and downland routes in Sussex, Kent and Hampshire take exposure and wind, which moves signage and cones and reduces conspicuity in wet, dark conditions.
Seasonal traffic adds another constraint: routes to the coast and to ports and airports have peak periods that make daytime occupation unrealistic in summer and around holidays.
Our process
Step 1
You send the location, the works and the dates. We check the road type, the speed limit, the highway authority involved and any local constraints before quoting.
Step 2
We produce the temporary traffic management design and scheme-specific CAD drawings for the arrangement your works actually need, not a generic layout.
Step 3
We submit to the local highway authority and manage the process end to end — permits, Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders, notices and conditions — and confirm approval in writing.
Step 4
Crews, signals, signage and barriers are allocated from our fleet of around 150 vehicles and team of around 300, and booked to the dates you have been given.
Step 5
Carded and ticketed operatives working under our supervision install to the approved drawing, with the arrangement checked against the drawing before works start.
Step 6
The scheme is inspected and maintained, damage and displacement dealt with including out of hours, phases changed as planned operations, and everything collected at completion.
Certificates are issued for your pre-qualification pack on request. We work direct for end clients and as a subcontractor to principal contractors.
Straight answers
Yes — Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Hampshire, including Reading, Slough, Maidenhead, High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Milton Keynes, Watford, Guildford, Woking, Maidstone, Canterbury, Ashford, Brighton, Crawley, Basingstoke and Winchester.
The region borders our Oxfordshire base, and crews and equipment are allocated from around 150 vehicles and around 300 staff. Planned works are booked to your dates and approved window; emergency call-outs are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Pricing follows the road type and speed limit, the arrangement required, the number of authorities involved, the working hours permitted, the equipment on hire, the duration and the crew requirement, plus authority permit or TTRO fees. Night and weekend working costs more than daytime work, so each scheme is quoted in writing.
Yes, 24/7 rapid-response call-outs across the region for burst mains, carriageway failures, collisions and damaged temporary traffic management.
That is one of the main reasons contractors use us here. A programme crossing four or five highway authorities stays one contract with one point of contact, and each authority's submission is prepared to its own permit scheme and notice periods.
Yes. Motorway and dual carriageway schemes are delivered under Sector Scheme 12D registration by ticketed crews, in windows agreed with National Highways or the relevant authority.
Regularly, because commuter peaks make many routes unavailable during the day. Night schemes are planned as night shifts with lighting and conspicuity designed in, and the installation and removal sequence built to fit the window.
Yes. Portable and vehicle-actuated signals are supplied, installed and maintained for the whole hire period, whether that is a few days on a residential street or months on a distributor road.
Yes, end to end with each relevant authority — permit applications, Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders, notices and conditions — with approval confirmed in writing before you mobilise.
£10 million public liability and £10 million employers' liability, with Sector Scheme 12 registration across 12A to 12D, Chapter 8 and NRSWA compliance, and Constructionline, BM Trada, CHAS, Acclaim, Achilles UVDB, SafeContractor and ISO 9001.
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Send the sites, the counties and the dates. You get a written estimate covering the design, each authority's permit or TTRO, the equipment and the crews.
25 years · Sector Scheme 12A–12D · £10m public liability · 24/7 cover
Road type, duration and start date is enough to price it. We reply to every enquiry.
