Independent highway consultancy · UK-wide

Highway design and transport planning, direct or under your name.

We do highways. Simply.

We work directly for developers and private clients, and as a white-label design partner for consultancies and local authorities. From first opinion to technical approval.

Talk through your site White-label service

Our director has 25+ years in highway design Feasibility · S278 · S38 · S104 · S184 Offices in Yorkshire & Wales

25+years' director experience

Bothdirect and white-label

2offices, Yorkshire & Wales

UKwide coverage

White-label service

Extra capacity, under your name.

A good share of our work goes out under other firms' names. Consultancies use us when they're over capacity or need highway expertise they don't have in-house, and local authority teams use us for overflow design and checking. Your client only ever sees you.

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Drawings on your templates, your numbering, your standards. Civil 3D, CAD and PDF supplied.

Completely confidential

No contact with your client unless you ask for it, and no client lists on this site. We stay in the background.

Switch on when you need it

One drawing or a full S278 package, a single job or ongoing overflow. No retainer, no minimum.

Checking as well as design

Independent technical checks of S278 and S38 submissions for highway authority teams short of hands.

Working with us directly instead? Everything above applies to you too, just with our name on the drawings. References are available on request either way.

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Services

What we do, in plain English.

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Feasibility & access

Will the access work?

Early highway advice and sketch options before land is bought or plans are fixed. Visibility splays, swept paths from cars to HGVs and fire tenders, parking layouts, and a short transport note or speed survey where needed.

Section 278, 38 & 184

Drawings that get approved

Section 278 accesses, junctions and frontage improvements, Section 38 estate roads for adoption, and Section 184 vehicle crossings and minor works. Levels, kerbs, signs and lines, drainage and lighting, taken all the way to technical approval.

Highway agreements

Highway agreements advice

Plain-English guidance through S278 and S38 agreements, bonds, commuted sums, boundary searches and stopping-up, so there are no surprises along the way.

Highway improvement schemes

Active travel and corridor schemes

Optioneering, concept design, consultation drawings, business case support, cost take-offs and detailed design for walking, cycling and junction schemes.

Construction & traffic

Logistics and traffic management

Construction logistics plans, phased site layouts, HGV routing and temporary traffic management, including on busy town-centre and airport sites.

Road safety audits

Audits organised and answered

We organise independent road safety audits at Stages 1 to 3, prepare the audit briefs and drawing packs, and write the designer's responses.

Parking & servicing

Car parks and servicing plans

Car park layouts and management plans, delivery and servicing strategies, and internal access road design.

White-label service

Extra capacity, under your name

Discreet design and checking for consultancies and local authority highway teams, on your templates and to your standards.

Active travel

Walking, wheeling and cycling schemes, start to finish.

We're highly involved in active travel schemes around the country, and have taken corridor, junction, crossing and local centre schemes from first options through to detailed design, designed to current national design guidance.

Optioneering and concept design
Public consultation drawings
Business case support and cost estimates
Detailed design to current guidance

Sectors

Quietly reliable, across a wide range of sites.

We don't publish client lists. Our work ranges from single accesses to 300+ home developments, for highway authorities, developers and private clients UK-wide. References on request.

Housing developments
Retail & food stores
Schools, colleges & universities
Airports & logistics
Leisure & healthcare
Council highway schemes
Active travel

Up to date

We keep our tools current: Civil 3D, Autodesk Vehicle Tracking, QGIS with OS MasterMap, and custom automation and AI-assisted workflows built into our design process. You get modern, efficient design, still checked line by line by an experienced highway engineer.

About

A small team with big-firm experience.

PRD Highways is a small, independent highway consultancy founded in 2018 by Pete Rushton, a Fellow of the Institute of Highway Engineers with over 25 years in highway design.

We're small enough that you deal with the same people from first call to technical approval, and experienced enough to know what councils will accept. Working from offices in Yorkshire and Wales, we deliver schemes UK-wide.

If you've got a site and aren't sure whether the access will work, give us a shout. Most of the time a quick look is all it needs.

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