Birmingham puts on the brakes to 30mph07/08/2025 Birmingham has announced plans to reduce the speed limit on a raft of 40mph main roads to 30mph, with around 30 major routes expected to be impacted. |
CPC Civils on a roll with £17m active travel deal30/07/2025 CPC Civils has been awarded a new £17m active travel contract by Birmingham City Council. |
Birmingham City Council to launch £400m transport and infrastructure consultancy services framework15/05/2025 Birmingham City Council are currently conducting a soft market testing exercise ahead of its planned June launch of the multi-disciplinary professional services framework. |
West Midlands set to launch £1bn mega-framework14/05/2025 Procurement for a new £1bn framework covering highways work across the West Midlands starts next month. |
Kier apologises over Zephaniah mural error08/04/2024 A council contractor has apologised after painting over a mural of the late poet and Peaky Blinders star Benjamin Zephaniah in central Birmingham. |
Brum keeps shtum over funding axe reasons05/12/2023 Birmingham City Council has received a document setting out ministers’ reasons for pulling funding from its £2.7bn highways Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract but has refused to disclose it. |
Volker gets rescue job on Brum viaduct20/06/2022 Birmingham City Council has awarded VolkerFitzpatrick a £59m contract for strengthening and refurbishment works to the A38(M) Tame Valley Viaduct, whose current theoretical load capacity has been rated as zero. |
Contract notice published for £1.15bn Birmingham PFI deal15/02/2022 A £1.15bn PFI contract notice for highways services in Birmingham has been published, launching one of the largest procurement races in local government roads. |
Viaduct with 'theoretical load capacity of zero' gets repairs cash after seven-year wait16/12/2021 Ministers have confirmed £72m in funding for essential maintenance work on a key link into Birmingham city centre - though the cash was first provisionally awarded more than seven years ago. |
Birmingham delays charging as CAZ is soft launched02/06/2021 Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone finally went live on Monday, but with a two-week ‘soft launch period’ where no charges will be levied. |
Cities move ahead on CAZs as traffic returns28/01/2021 Birmingham and Greater Manchester are progressing plans to introduce clean air zones despite hopes that the pandemic might cut levels of pollution from traffic |
Online vehicle checker muddies the waters in pollution fight13/02/2020 The Government’s new online vehicle checker for Clean Air Zones has caused confusion after it wrongly told drivers of compliant vehicles that they would be charged £8 under Birmingham’s forthcoming CAZ. |
Birmingham seeks £85m interim highways contractor22/08/2019 Birmingham City Council’s highways PFI vehicle has launched a search for a subcontractor to operate and maintain the city’s roads for a 15-month period in a deal worth up to £85m. |
Birmingham members reserve final say on Amey settlement23/05/2019 The final details of a settlement between Birmingham City Council and highways contractor Amey will go before senior councillors next month. |
Amey hit by £50m Birmingham PFI compensation13/06/2018 Amey has been ordered to pay Birmingham City Council more than £50m in compensation after the contractor lost a long-running court battle earlier this year, according to reports. |
Amey books £200m loss over Birmingham troubles11/05/2018 Amey's parent company, Ferrovial, has reported a loss of some £141m in the first three months of 2018, mainly related to the fallout from the Birmingham PFI contract. |
Amey moves on to deliver 'cycle revolution' in Birmingham09/04/2018 Amey has begun work on a £5.4m project in Birmingham to deliver a 4km two-way, fully segregated cycle route linking Selly Oak and the University of Birmingham with the city centre. |
Through the bad times and the good13/03/2018 Neil Gibson, first vice president of council directors’ body ADEPT gives his views on what makes successful partnerships between local authorities and suppliers. |
£254m of proposed investment in Birmingham’s roads11/02/2016 Birmingham City Council’s cabinet is set to approve a £254 million funding package for highways and road repairs. |
Birmingham wants 20mph limit on majority of roads24/09/2013 Birmingham City Council wants 90% of its roads to have a 20mph limit. |
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