Shropshire Council

Housing and industrial estate highway development and adoption

Please note that these pages are currently being updated

Design specification for residential and industrial housing estates

The Shropshire Manual for Adoptable Roads and Transport (SMART) provides advice on the procedures to be followed and the construction standard required to secure the adoption of the developed highway.
You can view the guide online, or download a copy for printing, by opening the attachments on this page:

Submitting site plan drawings for development

Where applicable, drawings/data with the necessary information relating to the Technical Assessment (of which can be found in the Design Manual) should be provided in the form of a full-size paper copy alongside electronic versions in a PDF and Auto-Cad format.

An application maybe submitted via email: highwaysdevelopment@shropshire.gov.uk, including electronic versions of the Section 38 Application form and drawings, however the formal Technical Assessment will not begin until the posted application has been received and validated.

Drawings should be submitted at a scale no smaller than 1:1250 and all designs shall be based on a 3D topographical survey in line with the Royal Institutional of Charted Surveys (RICS) specification.