Charges
Street Manager Charges
How are Street Manager funds used?
The DfT has invested over £10m in the development of Street Manager. The service is now funded through user charges. These charges are used to fund the costs involved in maintaining the service and for its continuous improvement.
In mid-2021, we gave our users the option to make changes to the methodology of calculating the charges and consider whether we want to reduce or increase the speed of development of Street Manager functionality. Users opted to maintain the speed of development and further bands were added to reduce the price increase between bands. To be clear, charges for Street Manager are used to fund the maintenance and continuous improvement of the service. They are on a cost recovery basis. Any surplus that may arise will be used to improve Street Manager. Charges are by organisation (local highway authority and statutory undertaker). There are no restrictions on the number of users once your organisation has signed up. Any future development and new services will be made available to all users at no additional cost, and each organisation will be charged whether you use Street Manager via the user interface or via an API.
How are charges calculated?
Charges are calculated based on works between January and August 2021 extrapolated over 12 months. We have decided to place organisations in bands rather than basing charges on individual transactions. This is because our users indicated that they would prefer this charging methodology.
We want the charges to be fair, so that larger organisations/heavy users pay more than smaller ones/light users. We have decided to charge Highway Authorities and Works Promoters for 50% of the costs of Street Manager each and use two different methodologies for calculating the costs for the two parties. These methodologies have been discussed with Streetworks UK and JAG(UK).
Those methods are as follow:
Works Promoters – Calculated based on number of works undertaken by the promoter in the relevant time period. Highway Authorities – Calculated based on number of works carried out in that Authority in the relevant time period, excluding the Authority’s own works.
| Bottom of Band | Top of Band | Band Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 300,001 | N/A | £400,000 |
| B | 150,001 | 300,000 | £200,000 |
| C | 110,001 | 150,000 | £150,000 |
| D | 85,001 | 110,000 | £100,000 |
| E | 70,001 | 85,000 | £75,000 |
| F | 50,001 | 70,000 | £60,000 |
| G | 35,001 | 50,000 | £40,000 |
| H | 25,001 | 35,000 | £32,500 |
| I | 15,001 | 25,000 | £25,000 |
| J | 7,501 | 15,000 | £17,500 |
| K | 3,001 | 7,500 | £10,000 |
| L | 1,501 | 3,000 | £7,500 |
| M | 751 | 1,500 | £5,000 |
| N | 151 | 750 | £3,000 |
| O | 0 | 150 | £1,000 |
| Bottom of Band | Top of Band | Band Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 50,001 | N/A | £40,000 |
| B | 40,001 | 50,000 | £32,500 |
| C | 30,001 | 40,000 | £27,500 |
| D | 25,001 | 30,000 | £22,500 |
| E | 20,001 | 25,000 | £20,000 |
| F | 15,001 | 20,000 | £17,500 |
| G | 10,001 | 15,000 | £15,000 |
| H | 5,001 | 10,000 | £12,500 |
| I | 2,501 | 5,000 | £10,000 |
| J | 1 | 2,500 | £7,500 |
The Street Manager team