Freelance Highways Engineering,
Delivered Remotely.

DG Highways Engineering is the one-person consultancy practice of Daniel González Doval, IEng MICE. Supporting UK planning consultants, developers, and infrastructure teams with the highways side of their applications and schemes.

IEng MICE · NEC4 Supervisor · 10 years UK highways · Fully remote · Outside IR35

Daniel González Doval, founder of DG Highways Engineering

Services

I deliver the highways scope on your planning applications, infrastructure submissions and small-to-mid design packages — the work most planning consultancies and multi-disciplinary teams sub-contract.

Transport Statements

Full TS production for planning applications. Small-to-mid development schemes, change-of-use, residential, mixed-use, commercial.

Transport Assessments

TA production for larger applications, delivered with specialist sub-consultant support where the scope warrants it.

S278 / S38 / S106 scoping

Highway agreement scoping and design support for planning applications and discharge of conditions.

Feasibility & technical notes

Early-stage feasibility, site access assessments, highway capacity notes, pre-app support.

Road Safety Audit — Designer responses

Designer response packages for Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 RSAs under GG 119.

Highways design & PM

Preliminary and detailed highway design in local-authority context, with project management for delivery through planning and construction.

Working across DMRB, MCHW, Manual for Streets 1 & 2, LTN 1/20 and the S278/S38/S106 route. Independent delivery in local-authority-scale schemes; strategic road network and larger DMRB-led schemes delivered with specialist sub-consultant support.

Experience

A decade of UK highways design and delivery, latterly as Principal Engineer at WSP. Full project list available on request.

Corazon Hotel, Ellesmere Port

Transport Statement · change-of-use · 2025

Transport Statement for the change-of-use of 104 Whitby Road, Ellesmere Port, to the Corazon Hotel. Fixed-fee delivery for a planning-consultancy client; planning permission approved.

Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead

Design Manager & Highways Lead · 2020–2021 · ~£250k design fee, ~£1.2M construction

Design management of the Water Gardens public-realm and highways scheme for Dacorum Borough Council. Included the 3D design of the new access road off the A4146 Leighton Buzzard Road — horizontal and vertical alignment, long sections and cross sections in Civil 3D.

Sizewell C, AD6 Road Interface

Project Manager · May–November 2023

Project management of the AD6 Road Interface detailed design package — one of the road-infrastructure packages supporting the Sizewell C nuclear project. Delivered through to design freeze.

Earlier roles: NEC4 Supervisor on the A27 East of Lewes NMU works for National Highways (2022–2023); Design Manager on BCP TCF Wimborne Road corridor (2020–2021); WSCC Framework Lead Engineer (2017–2019).

How I work

  • Engagement: UK Ltd Co (via Sempre Property Ltd trading as DG Highways Engineering) — outside IR35, invoiced direct
  • Location: fully remote — UK and Spain base
  • Availability: immediate — ad-hoc, peak-load cover, part-time retainers, or defined fixed-fee packages
  • Response: within 24 hours on weekdays

Get in touch

For a chat about a specific scheme, or to be on file for future capacity needs, drop me a line.