Dominic Browne

15 March 2023

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed a further £200m in 2023-24 to tackle what he described as the 'curse of potholes’.

28 October 2021

National Highways is facing a major funding cut of some £3.4bn after today’s Budget, with the total for the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS 2) dropping dramatically from the £27.4bn announced last year to £24bn.

31 March 2021

The estimated one-time cost to get local roads in England and Wales back into a ‘reasonable, steady state’ is £10.24bn, according to a new survey.

25 November 2020

The chancellor Rishi Sunak used the 2020 Spending Review to launch a new strategy for UK infrastructure.

11 March 2020

The Government has unveiled £4.2bn for urban transport as part of its spring budget giveaways.

17 February 2020

Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has activated the Bellwin scheme, providing emergency financial assistance for councils affected by Storm Dennis.

05 February 2020

West Sussex CC has paid £4m in compensation to Amey over a contested highways procurement process.

18 November 2019

Kier’s chief operating officer (COO), Claudio Veritiero, has left the business with immediate effect, after only being appointed in August 2018.

14 October 2019

The Queen's Speech has pledged a revamped national infrastructure strategy designed to help support growth across the UK, as well as an aviation bill and proposals for rail reform.

17 June 2019

Kier Group is to cut around 1,200 jobs and make savings of £55m over the next two years amid a planned sell-off of many of its commercial interests.

17 April 2019

Stephen Fidler, deputy director in the Department for Transport’s strategic roads division, has been named as its new director of local transport, succeeding Graham Pendlebury, who retires at the end of May.

18 February 2019

Amey may have to pay more than £200m to extricate itself from its troubled 25-year PFI contract with Birmingham City Council after years of legal difficulties, according to national newspaper reports.

26 June 2018

A group of councils opposed to Heathrow expansion will launch a legal bid for a judicial review of Parliament’s decision to back a third runway.

13 June 2018

Amey has been ordered to pay Birmingham City Council more than £50m in compensation after the contractor lost a long-running court battle, according to reports.

20 March 2018

The estimated highways maintenance backlog has fallen by almost 23% this year to £9.3bn from £12bn.

23 February 2018

The Court of Appeal has found in favour of Birmingham City Council in a long-running and occasionally bitter highways dispute, rejecting Amey’s ‘ingenious new interpretation of the contract’.

08 March 2017

Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced a major local funding boost to tackle congestion in his first Budget, with a £690m competitive fund for English councils to get local networks moving.

06 December 2016

Senior figures at the Local Government Association (LGA) are divided over whether to continue to press ministers to allow ‘full monty’ devolution without a directly-elected mayor.

23 November 2016

Chancellor Philip Hammond continued Government policy of investing in transport networks to help lay a foundation for increased growth and productivity, with billions being released for road and rail as well as a continuation of the fuel duty freeze.

16 March 2016

Flood resilience was a keynote winner in today’s Budget, with the chancellor raising the potential for spending to be on a secure footing similar to Highways England's under the planned ring-fencing of vehicle excise duty by 2020-2021.