£3bn contract in the pipeline at Essex23/06/2025 Essex County Council is exploring options for road maintenance after its current contract concludes in 2027, with future partnerships expected to be valued up to £3bn. |
Only 3% of England’s local roads receive maintenance15/04/2025 RAC analysis of official government figures has shown 97% of England’s 183,054-mile local road network received no maintenance of any kind throughout 2023/24. |
DfT outlines reporting 'strings' attached to extra maintenance cash24/03/2025 Ministers have told English highway authorities they need to ‘publish how many potholes they’ve filled or lose road cash’ as part of the Department for Transport's push for more local accountability. |
Road condition statistics 'shocking' and 'damning'21/03/2025 A key figure behind this week’s headline-grabbing survey of local roads has said it is ‘disgusting’ that the country has allowed the network to reach its current state. |
Long read: The state of local roads funding02/01/2025 Chris Ames looks at local road funding and tries to unpick what ministers and officials are thinking. |
Transport misses out in Spring Budget06/03/2024 With attention focused on tax cuts, Jeremy Hunt said almost nothing about transport spending in his Budget speech, while Treasury documents suggest a watering down of commitments to local roads. |
Wage settlement to add to pressure on Scottish councils02/12/2022 Cash-strapped Scottish councils dealing with the impact of soaring inflation and a huge pay rise for workers can hope to preserve their existing road networks but bus services are likely to be cut, a key figure in the sector has warned. |
Scottish local road backlog 'close to £1.7bn'14/03/2022 The Scottish Government has insisted that it provides enough funding for councils after the cost of repairing the country’s local roads was estimated at almost £1.7bn. |
Council seeks bidders for £40m roads works08/12/2021 Renfrewshire Council is advertising a framework contract for roads-related maintenance works worth up to £40m. |
£1.7bn Transport Infrastructure Investment Fund announced14/05/2020 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has unveiled a £1.7bn Transport Infrastructure Investment Fund to improve roads, bridges and support targetted schemes such as bus lanes or safety interventions. |
NIC calls for £500m local road funding boost - from 202510/07/2018 The National Infrastructure Commission has called for government to make £500m a year available from 2025/26 to 2034/35 for local highways authorities to address the local road maintenance backlog. |
RAC criticises lack of cash for local roads as bids open for £840m cash pot13/03/2018 The chancellor has opened bidding on an £840m cash pot from the Transforming Cities Fund for improving transport in English cities, but the RAC said motorists would be very disappointed that he did not address the condition of local roads. |
RSTA calls for increase in road maintenance budgets10/05/2016 The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has called for an increase in local road maintenance funding after statistics released by the Department for Transport (DfT) showed an increase in the number of licensed vehicles on the network. |
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