"It will encourage better planning and coordination between organisations, ensuring traffic continues to move across the county efficiently."

Roads aren't dug up for fun. If a utility network has an issue it's not possible to coordinate parties any better. The job has to be completed.

what a stupid law. the private companies will just pass the fees onto the government agency/council that has hired them to fix the roads

I feel old. I remember this story from 2010. Its almost word for word: