The council is responsible for promoting new development in North Lincolnshire. In order to help developers, builders, architects, designers and other relevant people, we've produced a series of design guides for new road developments:
- Industrial roads design guide
- Residential roads design guide
- Roadlighting, highway power supplies and street furniture specification
- Highway landscaping guide
- Parking guide
Updates to design guides
The document below contains amendments, additions and further information relating to the design guides. You should check this document on a regular basis. It will be added to when appropriate. The main body of the guides will not be altered until a major revision is needed.
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Industrial roads design guide
This provides guidance on the layout and design of roads serving industrial and commercial developments. It also provides guidance on the procedures necessary for the works to be adopted by the council.

Residential roads design guide
This document provides guidance on the layout and design of roads serving residential developments. It also provides guidance on the procedures necessary for the works to be adopted by the council. It should be read in conjunction, where appropriate, with the other guides on this site.

Roadlighting, highway power supplies and street furniture specification
This specification covers the supply, erection and commissioning of a roadlighting, power supplies and street furniture on new developments, including where appropriate the removal and/or re-siting of existing equipment.
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Highway landscaping guide
This guide sets out the requirements for all trees, shrubs and roses to be planted by developers. It also gives general guidance on site preparation.

Parking guide
General guidance for all new development, redevelopment and change of use proposals in North Lincolnshire.

Note: The above design guides are available to download and print. They are provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files and therefore require a suitable reader to view them. The reader can be downloaded free from the Adobe website (full instructions on how to do this are provided on the website).
Please note that some files are quite large and may take some time to download.
More information
If you have any comments about the guides or would like to receive information about updates please contact:
Tim Sowerbutts - Principal Highway Officer
Tel: 01724 297458
Email tim.sowerbutts@northlincs.gov.uk.