Section 278 highway works, estate roads, dropped kerbs and footway construction across Cambridge and Cambridgeshire. Approved working practices, accredited operatives and full traffic management. ISO 9001 certified.
GCS Contractors Ltd delivers roadworks and Section 278 highway packages for developers, main contractors and private clients across Cambridgeshire. From a new bellmouth junction or dropped kerb to complete estate road construction, we carry out works in the public highway safely, to specification and in coordination with the highway authority.
S278 works are often the critical path on a development — done late or badly, they hold up occupation. Our team manages the practical delivery: traffic management, approved materials, inspections and reinstatement, working alongside our own groundworks and civil engineering crews.
Junction improvements, bellmouths, visibility splays, footway crossings and carriageway alterations delivered under S278 agreements with the highway authority.
New estate road construction to adoptable standards under Section 38 — formation, sub-base, kerbing, surfacing and street ironwork.
Domestic and commercial dropped kerb installation, including council application support, to approved highway specification.
Footpath and cycleway construction and reinstatement in concrete, tarmac and block paving.
Road surfacing, patching and reinstatement using approved materials and compaction standards.
Planned traffic management for works in the highway, including signage, barriers and pedestrian routing.
We work across Cambridge, Ely, Newmarket, Huntingdon, St Neots, Royston, Saffron Walden, Peterborough, Bury St Edmunds and all of Cambridgeshire and East Anglia, with larger projects undertaken across the wider UK.
An agreement under the Highways Act 1980 that lets a developer carry out works to the existing public highway — such as a new junction, dropped kerbs or footway improvements — to the highway authority’s specification and approval.
Yes. We install domestic dropped kerbs and vehicle crossovers to council specification and can assist with the application process.
Yes — we construct estate roads under S38 agreements to the county’s adoptable specification, through every inspection stage.
All of Cambridgeshire including Cambridge, Ely, Newmarket, Huntingdon, St Neots and Peterborough, plus the wider East of England.
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