highway maintenance

22/10/2013

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Highway Maintenance has called for urgent action to stop local roads deteriorating.

16/12/2013

Ringway has retained its highways maintenance service contract with Worcestershire County Council.

16/01/2014

Hampshire County Council could make cuts to its highways services as it looks to save 12% of its budget by 2015.

19/02/2014

A road maintenance contract worth up to £21 million has been awarded to FM Conway.

19/03/2014

Chancellor George Osborne confirmed an extra £200 million pot to help councils repair potholes in his 2014 budget with local authorities invited to bid for funding.

20/03/2014

Southwark Council is planning to invest £41 million on highway maintenance improvements over the next 10 years.

26/03/2014

FM Conway has won major maintenance and improvement contracts with Westminster City Council valued at up to £450 million.

17/02/2016

Construction work to repair the storm-damaged A591 in Cumbria is progressing well with the installation of the first of around 20 steel posts that will be used to help re-build the road.

24/05/2016

VolkerHighways has been awarded a new highways term maintenance contract for the London Borough of Camden until 2020.

31/05/2016

A-one+ will continue to maintain and respond to issues on Yorkshire and the Humber’s roads after winning a new contract with Highways England.

28/06/2016

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is embarking on a multi-million pound resurfacing and patching campaign.

23/03/2018

Steve Gooding, former director at the Department for Transport and current director of the RAC Foundation, argues that highway maintenance still does not get the support it deserves.

18/04/2018

Lincolnshire County Council is seeking contractors for highway maintenance work that could be worth £762m over 12 years.

19/04/2018

Liverpool City Council is set to spend an additional £200m on road repairs to tackle the deteriorating quality of the highway network in the city.

03/05/2018

Grimsby-based North East Lincolnshire Borough Council has appointed 16 contractors to a highway works framework for minor highways maintenance and improvement work worth a total of £20m.

08/05/2018

Bath and North East Somerset Council is seeking bids for a highways maintenance and improvement contract that could be worth £70m over ten years.

11/05/2018

Thirteen contractors are in line for construction, repair and maintenance work to the City of Edinburgh's road network under a framework valued at up to £46m.

06/06/2018

Gloucestershire County Council has shortlisted three bidders to go through to the next stage of its procurement exercise for a term maintenance contract that could be worth up to £430m over 11 years.

27/06/2018

A Department for Transport official has said the argument has been won on highway authority incentive funding and the system is likely to continue into the next parliament.

09/07/2018

Infrastructure services company FM Conway has won a highway service contract worth up to £130m with the London Borough of Croydon, where it has an asphalt plant, as part of the town’s £5.2bn regeneration programme.

29/08/2018

Local highways and transport services in England underspent by hundreds of millions of pounds in 2017-18, as the growing pressure from demand-led services such as social care continued to bite.

05/09/2018

Haringey Council is seeking a contractor or contractors for a highway and street lighting contract worth up to £108m over eight years.

16/10/2018

Harrow Council is looking for a highways maintenance contractor in a deal that could be worth £110m over 10 years.

16/10/2018

Highways England has valued its new combined Maintenance and Response contract for the East of England at £490m over 15 years.

19/10/2018

The Ranty Highwayman is a chartered engineer who works in a local highways department. In this article he discusses unsung heroes.

29/10/2018

Wolverhampton Council has cut disruption on its roads by using a Velocity Patcher to fill potholes roads across the city at speed.

27/11/2018

10/04/2019

North Yorkshire County Council is considering using a ‘Teckal’ company in order to improve its highway maintenance services.

01/05/2019

Renfrewshire Council has launched a five-year, £40m roads maintenance programme, which it described as ‘the biggest ever sustained investment in our roads network’.

02/05/2019

The head of a major term maintenance contractor has called on local authorities to stick with outsourcing for local roads, despite the collapse of major players in the field and a dearth of bids for contracts.

09/07/2019

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.

07/08/2019

Balfour Beatty Living Places has been awarded a one-year extension worth £34m on its Warwickshire highways maintenance contract.

09/10/2019

City of Stoke-on-Trent Council is the latest highway authority to agree a new maintenance policy, which will delay defect repairs and has been linked to funding as well as updated risk management policies.

03/12/2019

Balfour Beatty Living Places has secured a highway maintenance contract with Lincolnshire County Council worth £217m over six years with an option to extend for a further six.