Atkins strikes again with £40m Surrey deal09/11/2022 Surrey County Council has awarded Atkins a highways and infrastructure professional service contract worth more than £40m over five years. |
UK first as Surrey plans speed reduction trials on 60mph roads09/08/2022 Surrey County Council has announced plans to pilot speed limits of 20mph and 30mph on roads that were previously 60mph, in what is thought to be a UK first. |
Surrey in-sources from districts and boroughs08/08/2022 Surrey County Council is taking back responsibility for verge management and on-street parking from local councils to 'ensure a consistent approach'. |
Surrey seeks to maximise opportunities of £2.5bn roads deal12/10/2020 Surrey County Council is advertising a new highway maintenance contract that could be worth £2.5bn over 21 years, with the stated value of the deal having trebled in three months. |
Leafy Surrey seeks bidders for £800m roads deal25/06/2020 Surrey County Council is carrying out further pre-market engagement for a highway maintenance contract that could be worth £800m over 14-21 years. |
Surrey seeks market help with rethink of £615m highways services09/07/2019 Surrey County Council is consulting the market in what appears to be a major rethink of the delivery of its highways maintenance, construction and design services before the procurement of some £615m of work. |
Shoddy reinstatement 'put lives at risk'26/04/2019 BT has received what is thought to be one of the highest fines ever for ‘bad road repairs’, which ‘could have had fatal consequences’ according to the courts. |
Roadworker dies on Surrey roundabout scheme04/06/2018 A worker has died on site at a road improvement scheme in Surrey, after apparently being hit by plant machinery. |
Surrey CC outlines footpath improvement plans14/11/2016 Surrey County Council will improve almost 42 miles of footpaths next year. |
Young people on the road to a career in highways03/11/2016 A trial scheme aimed at providing young people with the skills to launch a highways career has proved so successful that it will be rolled out further next year. |
Kier wins £160m Surrey highways extension10/02/2016 Kier Group has been awarded a £160 million four-year extension to its highways maintenance contract with Surrey County Council. |
Kier and Surrey CC plan careers college to train highways workforce04/02/2016 Kier and Surrey County Council are set to launch a ‘construction academy’ that will see them train their own highways workforce. |
Increased congestion in Surrey10/12/2015 Heavy rush hour traffic is forcing Surrey drivers to set their alarm up to eight minutes earlier than five years ago in order to get to work on time. |
Fixing Surrey’s roads would cost £300m17/11/2015 Fixing all of Surrey’s roads today would cost nearly £300 million, the county council has revealed. |
Drive to overhaul roads saves £7m02/09/2015 More than £7 million-worth of taxpayers money has been saved as a result of Surrey County Council’s drive to make the county’s roads more pothole-proof. |
Surrey CC wants money from Roads Fund spent on local roads29/07/2015 Surrey County Council wants money from the government’s new Roads Fund to be spent on local roads. |
Surrey CC to make roads pothole-proof14/07/2015 Surrey County Council will make more than 800 roads pothole-proof over the next three years. |
Preview of Epsom town centre revamp10/03/2015 An artist’s impression of a planned £3.3 million revamp of Epsom town centre has been published by Surrey County Council. |
Renovation of historic Surrey bridges completed03/07/2014 A project to regenerate two historic bridges in Surrey has been completed on time despite severe winter flooding. |
Surrey gets £3.8m boost to help fix flood-damaged roads23/06/2014 Surrey County Council has welcomed a £3.8 million government boost towards its £23m repair bill to fix flood-damaged roads. |
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