Articles by Dominic Browne
Budget: £500m a year for local roads maintenance
By Dominic Browne | 30 October 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced an extra £500m a year for local roads maintenance from nex...
LGA launches attack on DfT over traffic fine surplus plans
By Dominic Browne | 17 May 2024
Council leaders have hit back at the Department for Transport (DfT) over plans to restrict their ...
Budget 2023: Hunt confirms £200m for 'potholes curse'
By Dominic Browne | 15 March 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed a further £200m in 2023-24 to tackle what he described as th...
Budget 2021: Highways face funding cut in Budget
By Dominic Browne | 28 October 2021
National Highways is facing a major funding cut of some £3.4bn after today’s Budget, with the tot...
£10bn bill to repair local roads
By Chris Ames | 31 March 2021
The estimated one-time cost to get local roads in England and Wales back into a ‘reasonable, stea...
Spending Review: Infrastructure gets pride of place
By Dominic Browne | 25 November 2020
The chancellor Rishi Sunak used the 2020 Spending Review to launch a new strategy for UK infrastr...
Budget 2020: Mayoral authorities win big in transport
By Dominic Browne | 11 March 2020
The Government has unveiled £4.2bn for urban transport as part of its spring budget giveaways.
Jenrick activates Bellwin after storm
By Dominic Browne | 17 February 2020
Local government secretary Robert Jenrick has activated the Bellwin scheme, providing emergency f...
Council pays compensation to Amey after High Court challenge
By Dominic Browne | 05 February 2020
West Sussex CC has paid £4m in compensation to Amey over a contested highways procurement process.
Kier's chief operating officer quits
By Dominic Browne | 18 November 2019
Kier’s chief operating officer (COO), Claudio Veritiero, has left the business with immediate eff...
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