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The 1970s saw the start of the greatest road building programme since the days of the Turnpikes and also a major change in the structure of local authorities. The Society played a significant part in these changes and was accepted as a principal channel for initiatives and advice.
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with powers to give grants to highway authorities (local authorities) to construct and maintain roads. Many meetings of the society at that time were concerned with these grants, attempting to ensure an even spread of money around
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which was calling on the UK government to make safe road design a national transport priority. Since then, CSS has been subsumed by ADEPT, the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport.
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in 1964, county surveyors became increasingly involved in transportation studies, traffic management and road safety, in addition to the existing work on road maintenance and new road construction.
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saw the end of the lean years of highway funding with the beginning of the motorway era, during which time the UK was transformed from a series of country lanes to having major 'A' routes and
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added waste disposal to county surveyors' responsibilities. At the same time Surveyors of the Counties in Northern Ireland became part of the Department of the Environment, but in 1992 a
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The first meeting, and many other early meetings, were concerned with conditions of service of surveyors, mainly pay and hours of work. However by 1890 the
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founded in 1884, a year earlier than its English counterpart. In June 1937 it was agreed that they should join with their English and Welsh counterparts.
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and subsequently set out proposals in 1938 for a national motorway network, having been impressed with the work carried out by the then
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Over time, most authorities stopped using the term 'county surveyor', but both the society and the magazine who support them,
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had become increasingly involved with such matters as the rolling and watering of carriageways and repairs to footways.
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Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport
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was established officially at a meeting of eleven county surveyors for
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was formed in 1931, although this was an extension of the earlier
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branch was formed which became part of the main society.
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Professional associations based in the United Kingdom
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in highways departments in senior positions known as
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