Highways Finance

Let them borrow: Ken skates around roads funding gap

06/03/2025

Welsh councils will be able to access up to £120m to repair local roads over the next two years, under a borrowing initiative set out in the Welsh Government’s final budget for 2025-26.

Sector unites to call for five-year road budgets

18/02/2025

Some of the biggest names in the sector have joined together to call on the UK Government to introduce five-year budgets for local roads as part of its upcoming Spending Review.

Major Road Network identified as 'road safety priority'

26/11/2024

The crash rate on major local authority roads in England is four times that on National Highways’ strategic road network, a new report has found.

OBR slams Government spending pledges as 'worse than fiction'

01/02/2024

The chair of the fiscal responsibility watchdog has described the Government's spending plans beyond 2025 as 'worse than fiction' - pouring cold water on hopes of a local roads boost.

AA seeks new pothole cash as councils face cut

30/10/2023

Councils ‘desperately need’ more highway maintenance funding to address the deteriorating condition of local roads, the AA has said after its worst September fixing ‘pothole-related’ breakdowns for five years.

TfL denies swallowing up government roads cash

28/09/2023

Transport for London has pushed back against criticism from the influential leader of a London Borough over the allocation of central government highways funding.

AA warns ministers not to cut local roads cash

03/11/2022

The AA has warned that England’s local road network ‘cannot take another round of cuts’ after official figures showed that a third of English councils' B and C roads were rated in amber or red condition in the last year.

Council chiefs warn of plague of potholes and salt shortages

31/08/2022

Council leaders have warned that local authorities will struggle to maintain roads and street lights, and will face salt shortages this winter due to spiralling inflation and the price of energy.

Lincolnshire calls on Shapps to reverse highways cuts

07/01/2022

Lincolnshire County Council has called on transport secretary Grant Shapps to return the millions cut from highways maintenance budgets last year, as the council bemoaned a £12m funding gap in its highways service.

Spending Review conceals local road funding cuts

28/10/2021

Local road maintenance funding appears to be facing a cut of around £200m over three years following the Spending Review.

Road maintenance budgets face £400m cut, councils warn

11/10/2021

Funding for local road maintenance has been cut by £400m this year, the Local Government Association has warned.

TfL celebrates £25m landmark for lane rental scheme

29/07/2021

As Transport for London's lane rental scheme approaches a decade of operation, the capital's transport authority celebrated the £25m it has raised for 79 projects to improve roadworks.

Reassess pothole cash rules, insurer says

09/06/2021

Zurich Municipal has called for local authority pothole funding to give greater focus to cycle paths and footways to protect cyclists and e-scooter riders.

Council road cash 'cut by more than a fifth this year'

26/05/2021

Councils have warned that they face a £400m reduction in local road maintenance budgets this year.

North Lanarkshire tenders £5.7bn 'roads and place' partnership contract

04/05/2021

North Lanarkshire Council has tendered a £5.7bn commercial place-shaping partnership contract, which would last 20 years with the option to extend for a further five.

ALARM 2021: Slow progress as industry bangs the five-year funding drum

31/03/2021

The estimated one-time cost to get local roads in England and Wales back into a ‘reasonable, steady state’ is £10.24bn, according to this year’s ALARM survey – the popular benchmark for the upkeep of council networks.

Liverpool operated culture of 'rule avoidance' in highways

25/03/2021

An independent report into the procurement of highways-related services at Liverpool City Council has called for the highways service to be completely restructured after finding a culture of ‘rule avoidance’ leading to excessive costs.

£12m more for Welsh roads as election nears

24/03/2021

The Welsh Government has announced an extra £12m for local authorities to 'fix potholes and improve roads, pavements and active travel routes' across the country.

First round of £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund begins

04/03/2021

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed that the first round of the £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund will be available to local areas to help tackle regional inequalities.

Council road repairs cash down £400m next year

15/02/2021

County councils have said they will have ‘no choice’ but to cancel high priority highway maintenance works next year after the Government announced capital funding allocations down £398m on current levels.

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