Essex charges up £633m EV infrastructure contract12/09/2025 Essex County Council has tendered an electric vehicle charging infrastructure contract with an estimated value of £633m over a possible 16-year period. |
Spike in Essex road deaths blamed on driver behaviour11/09/2025 Essex Police have said that he volume of deaths on Essex's roads in 2025 has been ‘relentless’, according to the BBC. |
Essex welcomes engagement on £3bn contract05/08/2025 Essex County Council (ECC) has announced a virtual engagement session for suppliers interested in bidding on the £3bn highways strategic transformation contract. |
£3bn contract in the pipeline at Essex23/06/2025 Essex County Council is exploring options for road maintenance after its current contract concludes in 2027, with future partnerships expected to be valued up to £3bn. |
Essex awards £27m link road job to Octavius22/08/2024 Octavius has been awarded the first phase of the new A1331 near Colchester to the east of the University of Essex, having carried out earlier design work on the scheme. |
Essex plans to bring more maintenance oversight in-house15/03/2024 Essex County Council is planning to bring more highways maintenance in-house when procurement for a new contract starts next year. |
Essex starts search for the future of highways20/06/2023 Essex County Council has begun the process of finding a new highways maintenance contractor, including a possible redesign of its highways service. |
Essex puts in the hard graph01/09/2022 Ringway Jacobs and Essex County Council are trialling a hot rolled asphalt (HRA) containing graphene on a section of road in Chelmsford. |
£76m new M11 junction opens early16/06/2022 Civil engineering firm GRAHAM has completed work on one of the biggest highways infrastructure projects in Essex. |
GRAHAM gets £40m job on new Harlow junction26/02/2020 GRAHAM has been appointed as main contractor to deliver the new M11 Junction 7A at Harlow. |
Another one bites the dust: Chelmsford flyover to come down05/02/2020 Essex County Council will begin work to dismantle a flyover in Chelmsford city centre on Monday. |
Essex launches crackdown on roadworker abuse11/04/2019 Essex County Council has launched a crackdown on roadworker abuse, after seeing almost daily incidents recorded by its highways service Essex Highways -run in partnership with Ringway Jacobs. |
Eurovia win £5m 'challenging' Colchester project29/05/2018 Eurovia Contracting has won a £5m design and build scheme aiming to tackle congestion on one of Colchester’s busiest through roads. |
Pioneer counties join forces to trial smart city technology06/03/2018 Two county councils have announced that they are working together to pilot smart city services in partnership with a Cambridge-based technology firm. |
Funding secured for new M11 junction17/01/2017 A new £45 million junction on the M11 near Harlow will be jointly funded by the Department for Transport and Essex County Council. |
Essex CC trialling new road markings26/07/2016 Trials of new longer-lasting road markings could save taxpayers thousands of pounds, according to Essex County Council. |
£50m to be spent on improving Colchester’s roads25/05/2016 Essex County Council is investing £50 million on improving Colchester’s infrastructure – including road, cycle and bus schemes. |
Council push for Lower Thames Crossing decision16/03/2016 Essex County Council want the Secretary of State for Transport to make a decision on the new Lower Thames Crossing as soon as possible after public consultation on its proposed route options closes on 24 March. |
Lower Thames Crossing events attract thousands of visitors24/02/2016 More than 8,000 people have attended 16 public information events on proposals for a new multi-billion pound road link across the River Thames between Essex and Kent. |
Essex CC to spend £300m on roads over next three years11/02/2016 Essex County Council has committed to a £300 million programme of investment in its road network over the next three years. |
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