In November 2004, Audit Scotland published a document entitled "Maintaining Scotland's Roads", effectively introducing a requirement on local authorities in Scotland to produce a Roads Asset Management Plan (RAMP). Following this publication, The Society of Chief Officers for Transportation in Scotland (SCOTS) produced a common asset management framework through which all local authorities could develop their own RAMP. Street assets/ furniture are a key part of the RAMP and as such a requirement exists for a national dataset of information. This can include (although is not limited to) features such as bollards, road signs, barriers, parking bays, bus shelters, cattle grids, gates, street lighting columns, benches or seats, information boards, dog/ litter/ grit bins, cycle stands, ticket machines etc. etc.
We are currently only including furniture types that have been provided by more than one council. These are:
Grit Bins
Street Lights
Traffic Calming
Traffic Signals
Litter Bins
Cattle Grids
Weather Stations
Dog Litter Bins
Benches
Bollards
Picnic Tables
Memorials
Cycle parking
We understand that some local authorities are loading this data into the VAULT system. We will work with the team managing that system to ensure that there is one definitive list in the future.
