If you are holding an event, whether it will be on a road or not, you will need to consider the impact it will have on local traffic, and how people will be travelling to and from your venue.
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Inform the Traffic Manager’s Team at least 4 months before the event takes place, even if you think that the impact will be minimal. The team could help to ensure that no road works are near your event or advise on signage and traffic management.
What will you need?
You may need to close a road, reduce a speed limit or use temporary traffic lights. In order to do this you will need permission from Cambridgeshire County Council. If you need to close a road or footway, or reduce a speed limit you will need to complete the event temporary traffic regulation order application form (147Kb), and if you would like to use temporary traffic signals, you will need to complete the temporary traffic lights application form (18Kb).
Who can do it?
In most cases, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, will no longer provide traffic management for events. This includes the provision and putting out of signs to close roads or direct the traffic for you. You will need to take this into consideration when planning your event.
Unqualified members of the public are not permitted to put up signs on the road network or close roads. Only traffic management companies, the Police or those accredited under “The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 – Signing, Lighting and Guarding” are qualified to do so. Only the Police can direct traffic in the road.
Therefore, you may need to hire a traffic management company who can plan, erect and carry out traffic management for your event.