Cumbria Highways, the partnership between Cumbria County Council, Amey and Capita Symonds, now employs Highway Stewards to provide a service which will be highly responsive to local needs in rural areas. A number of Highway Stewards have been appointed throughout the County, each responsible for a local ‘patch’ or grouping of parishes within a ‘Local Area Partnership’ (LAP) area. The Stewards are equipped with tools and a van and will be trained to deal with many day-to-day jobs such as clearing blocked gullies and digging drainage channels, cleaning, repairing and replacing signs, weeding and cutting back overhanging vegetation and doing some road surface repair work. They find and fix many kinds of highways problems in their areas, are able to call in extra resources for bigger jobs and help inspectors and engineers identify areas where major works might be needed.
The Highways Stewards ideally live close to the communities they serve, and build working relationships with their parishes, councillors and other key figures in the area. In this way, they benefit from a wealth of local knowledge that helps them to keep on top of the small but important jobs that often make the most difference to local people.

Kirkbampton Parish Council also keep a record of the faults that they report together wth the reference number so that a check can be kept on how the work is proceeding.
If you report a fault to the Highways Hotline we would appreciate it if you would inform us of the reference number so we can track the works and if necessary chase up the problem.