Highways Asset Management Plan
Welcome to Ceredigion County Council’s Highway Asset Management Plan (HAMP). The highway network within Ceredigion is over 2,150 km of roads which need to be managed and maintained against a backdrop of ever-increasing traffic, varied weather conditions, and a high public expectation.
The transport network, and particularly our roads, play an important role in supporting many of the services provided by the County Council and good management of the highway network is key to how well we function as a county.
The roads system within Ceredigion supports not just our aspirations as a county but also the wider region and will be an important component in delivering the Mid-Wales Growth Deal.
The Highway Asset Management Plan (HAMP) provides the framework and route map towards the effective management of our highway network. National guidance and increasing financial pressures move us towards the risk-based approach adopted within this plan which will help ensure that we invest our funding where it is most needed and to best effect.
The HAMP discusses how the Highway Asset will be managed and maintained by Highways and Environmental Services in accordance with best practice and methods consistent with adjacent Authorities enabling benchmarking to be carried out each year.
The plan to invest in the Highway Asset is based on how the asset has been managed during the previous HAMP period and the costs that would be associated with maintaining current levels of deterioration against the current inflationary pressures.
The HAMP will be reviewed on a 5 yearly frequency unless a significant change is required sooner, for example, as a result of a major change of legislation, and performance reporting through an Annual Statement and Options Report (ASOR) which will allow us to monitor progress and make informed investment decisions..