Dominic Browne
Budget 2023: Hunt confirms £200m for 'potholes curse'
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed a further £200m in 2023-24 to tackle what he described as the 'curse of potholes’.
Budget 2021: Highways face funding cut in Budget
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.
£10bn bill to repair local roads
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.
Spending Review: Infrastructure gets pride of place
The chancellor Rishi Sunak used the 2020 Spending Review to launch a new strategy for UK infrastructure.
Budget 2020: Mayoral authorities win big in transport
The Government has unveiled £4.2bn for urban transport as part of its spring budget giveaways.
Jenrick activates Bellwin after storm
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has activated the Bellwin scheme, providing emergency financial assistance for councils affected by Storm Dennis.
Council pays compensation to Amey after High Court challenge
West Sussex CC has paid £4m in compensation to Amey over a contested highways procurement process.
Kier's chief operating officer quits
Kier’s chief operating officer (COO), Claudio Veritiero, has left the business with immediate effect, after only being appointed in August 2018.
Queen's speech: national infrastructure strategy set for revamp
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.
Jobs cull for Kier
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.
Fidler appointed DfT's local transport director
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.
Amey facing £200m Birmingham divorce bill
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.
Councils to legally challenge Heathrow expansion
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.
Amey hit by £50m compensation bill - reports
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.
Highways maintenance backlog falls to £9bn
The estimated highways maintenance backlog has fallen by almost 23% this year to £9.3bn from £12bn.
Birmingham wins Amey litigation
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’.
Budget 2017: Councils to bid for £690m congestion fund
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.
LGA split over mayoral devolution
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.
Autumn Statement: Hammond backs transport as foundation for growth
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.
Budget 2016: Osborne boosts infrastructure and flood defences
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.