Roads and streets

Flood and coastal erosion risk management

Coast protection, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), land drainage, flood risk management, coast protection and flood investigation reports.

Highways commercial services

Highways Material Laboratory, Council run MOT and Authorised Testing Facilities, our sign shop and our roundabout sponsorship scheme.

Holy Island crossing timetable

Safe times to cross to and from Holy Island.

Information for developers

Highways development, highways private streets and new developments, conducting a highways search and permission to open a highway.

Maintaining roads, pavements and bridges

Bridges, culverts and fords, request a dropped kerb, road flooding, blocked gully, damage to footpaths and pavements, obstructions and pothole reporting and applying for an on street cross-pavement channel for EV charging.

Public toilets

Find public toilets, accessible facilities, businesses offering free toilets access and RADAR key usage.

Report a tree issue

We provide tree maintenance services across Northumberland depending on land ownership and maintenance responsibility.

Road signs and markings

Apply for tourist signs, report problems with road signs, street plates and speed limits and information on road markings.

Road safety

Requesting speed limit changes, school crossing patrol jobs, road safety education and traffic management schemes.

Roadworks, closures and diversions

Abnormal loads, road closures for events and streetworks, find out about roadworks and the street works permit scheme.

Street and traffic lights

How to report faulty street and traffic lights.

Street care and cleaning

Arrange a litter pick, public toilet information, including Changing Places facilities, street cleaning information, reporting and disposing of litter, grass cutting and removing dead animals.

Timber transport

Timber transport route management and restrictions in Northumberland.

Traffic management - proposals, consultations and orders

This page provides information about traffic management schemes in Northumberland.

Winter services

Information on safe winter driving, gritting and ploughing and our snow warden scheme.