Council to insource routine maintenance16/02/2021 Cheshire West and Chester Council has revealed plans for the delivery of its Highways Service, which include delivering most small-scale maintenance services in-house. |
Leafy Surrey seeks bidders for £800m roads deal25/06/2020 Surrey County Council is carrying out further pre-market engagement for a highway maintenance contract that could be worth £800m over 14-21 years. |
Q and A with Mathew Lugg: Self-assessment, self-assessed13/02/2020 A top sliced cash pot is not really supposed to change a sector. It’s a politician’s gift, a press release, a civil servant’s pet project. In highways it often just shores up finance that had bled off into other services anyway. The highways self-assessment process was different. |
Northamptonshire highways fails to stand up to scrutiny28/01/2020 Northamptonshire County Council's highways department is under-performing, failing to get value for money, understaffed and in need of reform, according a review by the authority's scrutiny committee. |
Balfour scoops £217m Lincolnshire roads deal03/12/2019 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. |
Stoke enters risky waters on maintenance09/10/2019 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. |
‘Excellent performance’ wins Balfour Beatty £34m Warwickshire extension07/08/2019 Balfour Beatty Living Places has been awarded a one-year extension worth £34m on its Warwickshire highways maintenance contract. |
Surrey seeks market help with rethink of £615m highways services09/07/2019 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. |
Be bold and brave, Balfour boss tells councils02/05/2019 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. |
Renfrewshire launches £40m spend on 'quality, long-term repairs'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’. |
North Yorkshire considers Teckal option in highways revamp10/04/2019 North Yorkshire County Council is considering using a ‘Teckal’ company in order to improve its highway maintenance services. |
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Wolverhampton keeps traffic moving with quick pothole repairs29/10/2018 Wolverhampton Council has cut disruption on its roads by using a Velocity Patcher to fill potholes roads across the city at speed. |
Unsung heroes19/10/2018 The Ranty Highwayman is a chartered engineer who works in a local highways department. In this article he discusses unsung heroes. |
East region maintenance contract worth £490m, Highways England confirms16/10/2018 Highways England has valued its new combined Maintenance and Response contract for the East of England at £490m over 15 years. |
Harrow looks over the hill for £110m highway works16/10/2018 Harrow Council is looking for a highways maintenance contractor in a deal that could be worth £110m over 10 years. |
Haringey advertises £108m highways and lighting works05/09/2018 Haringey Council is seeking a contractor or contractors for a highway and street lighting contract worth up to £108m over eight years. |
Local highways and transport underspends by hundreds of millions29/08/2018 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. |
It’s coming home (for FM Conway at least): Firm secures £130m Croydon contract09/07/2018 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. |
Incentive element 'likely to continue', DfT official says27/06/2018 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. |
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