north east

04/06/2025

North East Mayor Kim McGuinness has announced a £1.85bn funding deal with the Government that will go towards local authority road and public transport projects across the North East.

06/03/2024

The North East has secured a trailblazer devolution deal that could provide a package of new funding potentially worth more than £100m, chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced in his Budget.

27/01/2017

Eighteen companies have been awarded a share of work as part of a framework of contracts worth up to £434 million.  

15/12/2016

Highways England has awarded four new style asset delivery contracts worth over £300 million to Kier, a CH2M/Costain joint venture and Amey.

20/10/2016

The Transport Secretary has announced Highways England road improvement schemes worth up to £20 million that he ways will create thousands of jobs and homes in the South West.

30/03/2016

Thirteen contractors have entered into a £96 million four-year framework agreement that will see them carry out highway maintenance works in the north east.

07/07/2015

The north east division of the Civil Engineering Contractors’ Association (CECA) says the recently announced £600 million worth of improvements for roads in the area is old money being announced as new.

02/07/2015

Details of £600 million worth of improvements that will take place on roads in the north east by 2020 have been revealed by Highways England.

09/02/2015

A £2.7 million scheme to replace road markings and studs on four key roads in the north east has started.

30/04/2014

The Highways Agency is set to carry out a major programme of road improvements in the north east, including work on the A1 north-south corridor between Leeming and Berwick.

06/07/2012

A group of five north east councils have selected the contractors they will use to carry out highways planing and resurfacing work.