Spencer Group bridges a gap with cantilever walkway on cantilever bridge26/04/2022 Bridges specialist Spencer Group is to cantilever a temporary walkway off the side of what is itself a historic cantilever bridge while it carries out major deck replacement works. |
DfT expects mayors to honour highways allocations14/04/2022 A senior Department for Transport official has played down the possibility that city regions will divert government cash intended for road repairs to pay for their plans to improve bus services. |
DfT announces £30m Live Labs 207/04/2022 Ministers have announced a second, UK-wide round of the ADEPT Live Labs programme, with a particular focus on making the construction, maintenance and running of the country's roads more sustainable. |
West Sussex boosts highway spending again24/03/2022 West Sussex County Council has agreed a £32m package of highways and transport spending for the forthcoming financial year, with an extra £21m from the council’s capital budget over the next five years. |
LA maintenance funding frozen after cut fears03/03/2022 The Department for Transport has announced individual allocations for all local highway authorities outside London and the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements – with cash frozen at 2021-2022 levels for the next three years. |
Liverpool seeking to change highways scene08/02/2022 Liverpool City Council is aiming to develop a new operational model for highway maintenance within 18 months as the internal supplier has struggled to meet its needs, its troubleshooter highways boss has told Highways. |
Battle to commence for £730m East Sussex deal15/11/2021 East Sussex County Council is advertising a contract worth up to £730m over 14 years covering the maintenance, improvement and design of the county’s highways and civil infrastructure. |
Highways England treads water with £218m East spend14/06/2021 Highways England has announced maintenance works totalling £218m over the next year in the East of England. |
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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