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HAUC (England) Lane Rental Working Group

The Lane Rental group works is set up to Identify and consider operational, legislative and technical issues arising from the practical implementation of Lane Rental schemes

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Lane Rental Primary Aims

  1. Identify and consider operational, legislative and technical issues arising from the practical implementation of Lane Rental schemes. This may include Street and Road Works administration and other process / systems issues.
  2. To be a conduit and Forum to consider issues in relation to existing and new Lane Rental schemes and to provide a framework for implementation, application and consistency of schemes.
  3. To be a Forum for debate and to offer guidance.
  4. To provide a Forum, via Authority and Utility representatives, for existing/new Lane Rental scheme promoters to share with prospective future authorities learning points from the development and implementation of existing schemes, and produce documents for approval as HAUC (England) Advice Notes. 
  5. To contribute to any DfT sponsored changes to the existing Lane Rental legislative framework, this may include associated regulations and statutory guidance.
  6. Any other issues agreed by the joint chairs.

Expected Outputs

Our working groups are co chaired with one representative from SWUK and one from JAGUK and where appropriate with additional representation from government departments

Sarah Widdows

Sarah Widdows

Co-Chair HAUC(UK)
Sarah Widdows

Sarah is the Streetworks and Traffic Manager for Norfolk County Council and has recently taken over as Co-Chair of HAUC(UK. Previously, Streetworks and Permitting Manager for Cambridgeshire County Council and Roadspace Management Manager for Buckinghamshire County Council and before that working as a contractor on Water Authority projects. Sarah has had 25 years working in the industry and implemented permit schemes in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Councils. Sarah is also Lane Rental Forum co-chair, Permit Authority Group Chair, member of the Code of Practice for Co-ordination Working Group and was Anglian JAG Chair for over eight years. Sarah is the Highway Authority Chair on the Street Manager Governance Group and Street Manager Subject Matter Expert.

Streetworks and Traffic Manager – Norfolk County Council

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Samantha Brothwell

Co-Chair (JUG) Street Manager Governance Group, SWUK Management Team , Lane Rental Forum & EMHAUC & Convention Committee Member
Samantha Brothwell

Samantha Brothwell was appointed to the Street Works UK Board in December 2012. Samantha is the Street Works Policy Manager for Western Power Distribution, Electricity Distribution Network Operator for the Midlands, South West of England and South Wales. Samantha is also the current chair of the Energy Networks Association Street Works Forum, East Midlands Joint Utility Group, East Midlands HAUC (Utility Side) and a member of the Co-ordination Working Group.

Samantha has worked in the electricity sector since 1990, and has had responsibility for Street Works since 2000.

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