Transport and streets

Car parking

Car parking, residents permits and how to pay a parking fine

Concessionary bus passes

How to get or renew a concessionary bus pass

Winter gritting and road maintenance

Find out how we grit roads in Darlington

Highways

Report a pothole/broken street light or enquire about a dropped kerb

Apply for a Blue Badge

Apply for a blue badge (disabled parking badge)

Roadworks

View current & planned roadworks on a map

Bridges and highway structures

Darlington Borough Council is responsible for 104 road bridges (including subways)

School transport

The school transport team administers applications for free school transport for children of compulsory school age

Street works register

Street works are works carried out to the utility services that are located within public highways

Local highways maintenance challenge fund

Darlington has submitted a bid to the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Local Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund.

MOT and winter vehicle checks

You can bring your vehicle to our Allington Way depot for an MOT test

Proposed street works permit scheme

Street naming and numbering

Darlington Borough Council is the Local Authority responsible for Street Naming & Numbering

Traffic regulation orders and consultations

Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders are issued under Section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

NPIF programme on Yarm Road & Tornado Way

The funding from DfT’s National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) will be used on some of Darlington’s busiest routes

Transport policy and funding bids

Rethinking Victoria Road consultation

Victoria Road was identified as an important street that links our ambitious plans for Darlington Station

List of streets and adopted highways map

A list of highways maintainable at the public expense

Lets Go Tees Valley

Lets Go Tees Valley Strapline

Lets Go Tees Valley [external link] is here to give you information and tips to get you to think about leaving your car at home where possible to travel greener, healthier and cheaper, and support you to get out there and do it!

National Productivity Investment Fund

Darlington Borough Council has successfully secured £3.374m of funding from the Department for Transport (DfT) to provide highways improvements that will support Darlington’s growing economy.

The funding from DfT’s National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) will be used on some of Darlington’s busiest routes to improve access to the town centre and sites around Central Park, Lingfield Point, Yarm Road Industrial Estate and Ingenium Parc. The total investment is almost £5m with £1.258m being provided by Tees Valley Combined Authority and £0.302m from the Council’s Local Transport funding. This will help to bring forward 4,300 jobs, £17.5m GVA and 2,600 homes. 

The improvements planned include:

  • McMullen Road/Yarm Road roundabout
  • Lingfield Way/Yarm Road junction
  • Tornado Way/Haughton Road throughabout

NPIF programme on Yarm Road and Tornado Way

Darlington Borough Council applied to the Department for Transport's National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) in 2017.Any schemes submitted to the programme had to fulfil one or more of the following outlined objectives;

  • Ease congestion and provide upgrades on important national, regional and local roads;
  • Unlock economic job creation opportunities;
  • Enable delivery of vital new housing development to meet the needs of a generation of would-be home owners

View the application [pdf document]