highway maintenance

Midlands councils launch joint procurement on £900m of work

07/07/2025

Warwickshire County Council, Coventry City Council and Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council have announced a joint procurement for £900m of highways maintenance works.

Windsor and Maidenhead tenders £114.8m highways maintenance contract

01/05/2025

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) has invited tenders for a highway maintenance and capital works contract with an estimated value of up to £114.8m.

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.

RAC sounds amber warning over road condition data

20/12/2024

The latest data on the condition of local authority roads in England shows the number of roads in the worst ‘red’ condition largely stable but more roads moving from green to amber.

Govt confirms £1.6bn for local roads but new incentives leave uncertainty

20/12/2024

Ministers have confirmed an extra £500m for local road maintenance in England next year but a quarter of the cash will be held back on the basis of an incentive process that has yet to be worked out.

DfT takes Network North £8.3bn off the table

02/12/2024

Senior Department for Transport officials have made clear that councils can no longer count on the previous government’s pledge of an extra £8.3bn over 11 years for local highway maintenance.

Haigh plans multi-year budgets with 'light touch' accountability

13/11/2024

Transport secretary Louise Haigh has said multi-year funding for local roads is crucial to her plans and raised the prospect of more 'light touch' accountability around the cash.

Analysis reveals pothole funding disparities

05/11/2024

Brighton and Hove has been identified as the local authority in England that received the most additional budget per mile for pothole maintenance last year.

Kent finally tenders £2bn highways maintenance deal

22/10/2024

Kent County Council has invited bids on a new highway maintenance term contract worth up to £2bn over a possible 21 years.

Pothole pledge subject to Spending Review

02/10/2024

The transport secretary has reaffirmed the new government's commitment to fix a million more potholes a year but spending details will not be confirmed until the Spending Review next year.

Shock as council paints over potholes

27/08/2024

Residents and councillors in Lymington were left in shock after the highway authority closed a pothole-riddled road for repairs – only to paint over the cavities.

Croydon splashes £12.5m on highways

14/08/2024

Croydon Council’s executive mayor has approved a £12.5m capital programme for the borough’s highway infrastructure for 2024-25.

£1m boost to road patching in East Sussex

17/07/2024

East Sussex County Council has committed an extra £1m to road patching, but acknowledged it would cost more than £300m to bring all its roads up to scratch.

Gloucestershire's £10m underspend means £2m boost for roads

09/07/2024

Gloucestershire County Council is to spend an extra £2m on highways projects this year, following a £10m underspend in its 2023-24 budget.

Parish council members all quit amid grass cutting dispute

25/06/2024

All members of a parish council in Cumbria have resigned after a man was criticised for cutting hedges and a grass verge.

Green calls for funding clarity to deliver long-term fix

18/06/2024

A key industry figure has called on the two main political parties to clarify their plans to fund local road maintenance.

Devon loses - and gains - £10m for roads

01/05/2024

Devon County Council is set to allocate an extra £10m for highway maintenance during the current financial year after a windfall from central government.

All Roads Lead: Episode 5 ALARM Special

05/04/2024

The All Roads Lead podcast speaks to Rick Green of the Asphalt Industry Alliance and Malcolm Simms of the Mineral Products Association about this year's ALARM survey results.

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.

Sandwell to put HS2 cash straight into roads

15/01/2024

Sandwell Council has welcomed half a million pounds of extra government highways funding and pledged to put the money directly into this year’s budget.

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