The Scottish Road Works Commissioner oversees improvements to the planning, co-ordination and quality of road works in Scotland.
The office promotes and encourages good practice across utility companies and roads authorities and monitors performance.
The Commissioner is aware that there was an outage of the Scottish Road Works Register yesterday (16 December 2024). Normal service resumed at around 15:15.
New powers granted to the Scottish Road Works Commissioner by the Transport (Scotland) Act (2019) allow him to carry out inspection of works by both public utilities and councils. Two new Compliance Officers have been appointed to carry out this role and, since the new powers came into effect on 1 April 2024, they have been focussing on compliance with the Safety at Street Works and Road Works Code of Practice at council road works sites.
