ADEPT

ADEPT launches 'sector-wide' highways carbon calculation programme

05/06/2025

Place directors in ADEPT have launched a 'first-of-its-kind' programme, with the support of the Department for Transport, to give English local highway authorities the funds to measure and reduce their carbon emissions.

ADEPT launches climate change toolkit for councils

19/05/2025

The Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) has launched a new toolkit designed to help local authorities plan for and manage the impacts of climate change.

ADEPT report: Can authorities nudge their way to net zero?

23/04/2025

A new report from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has been published today by ADEPT Live Labs 2, which concluded that there is ‘no quick fix’ to accelerate decarbonisation but also showed how behavioural changes can help promote the goal across local UK road authorities.

Live Labs 2 Expo: Dragons Den winners revealed

28/03/2025

The ADEPT Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads programme held a sold-out Expo this week to highlight its achievements.

Live Labs Expo moves to Liverpool for 2025

06/02/2025

The ADEPT Live Labs 2 Expo 2025 will take place in Liverpool next month with what is described as ‘a dynamic new structure’.

Carruthers warns against devolution 'shenanigans'

26/11/2024

The new government’s plans to extend devolution may deliver very little unless there is a change in the overall framework, a top local authority place director has warned.

ADEPT releases new guidance on commuted sums

20/05/2024

Local place directors have issued new guidance on charging developers for future asset maintenance under the commuted sums system, designed to create a transparent and flexible template based on whole-life costings.

Street works reforms: The view from ADEPT

23/04/2024

ADEPT’s First Vice President, Ann Carruthers, outlines the association’s response to new plans for how councils should spend surplus funds from street works fines and lane rental schemes.

Budget reaction: 'The general election will be crucial for infrastructure'

06/03/2024

The 'place' and infrastructure sector has expressed dismay at the chancellor's latest Budget, suggesting that more long-term funding is desperately needed.

ADEPT and Colas release guide to staff retention

16/11/2023

Council directors’ body ADEPT has published a new guide to help tackle the staff retention crisis in local authority place services.

Q&A with ADEPT Traffic Managers' chair Mark Corbin

31/08/2023

As the ADEPT National Traffic Managers Conference returns in October, chair of the National Traffic Managers' Forum Mark Corbin speaks to Dominic Browne about what is new in the industry, and the politics of expectations.

RAC Foundation/ADEPT survey: Bridge backlog rises to almost £6bn

17/03/2023

Great Britain is facing a total bridge maintenance backlog of close to £6bn, an increase of some £400m, as the nation saw another 14 partial bridge collapses over the last year.

Live Labs 2 contenders down to 10

03/11/2022

The £30m ADEPT Live Labs 2 programme has published the shortlist of projects that are going through to the next ‘Dragons’ Den’ stage.

Leeds the perfect place for ADEPT conference

16/09/2022

This year’s ADEPT Autumn Conference will build on the council directors body's priority themes for this year - people, place and planet.

'We need a pipeline of people': ADEPT's Traffic Managers' conference

08/09/2022

The chair of ADEPT's National Traffic Managers forum has said the highways sector needs to develop a ‘pipeline of people' as he discussed the skills gap in advance of the fourth National Traffic Managers' Conference in Birmingham next month.

Live Labs 2 'decarbonising local roads' open to applications

28/07/2022

The Government-funded £30m Live Labs 2 programme is now open to applications from local highways authorities and other sub-national transport groups with innovative ideas on 'decarbonising local roads'.

DfT announces £30m Live Labs 2

07/04/2022

Ministers have announced a second, UK-wide round of the ADEPT Live Labs programme, with a particular focus on making the construction, maintenance and running of the country's roads more sustainable.

ADEPT criticises 60mph limit on single carriageways

04/04/2022

Council directors have called for urgent changes to how road speeds are managed, suggesting the 60mph national speed limit on single carriageway rural roads was a 'particular concern'.

Local bridge standards decline and full collapses increase

24/03/2022

The number of substandard local road bridges across Great Britain has increased for the second year running to reach 3,211, according to a major survey.

ADEPT welcomes first female chair of transport board

22/03/2022

The first female chair of ADEPT’s Transport and Connectivity Board has said she hopes her achievement will give confidence to young people coming into the sector to progress their careers.

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