Planning approval for an upgrade of the A38 in Derby to remove three bottlenecks on the network has overcome legal challenges and a redetermination process with the Development Consent Order (DCO) for the scheme granted yesterday.
The National Highways’ £250M project involves improvements to roundabouts at Kingsway, Markeaton and Little Eaton…
Costain is to donate £55,000 to the Tyne Rivers Trust environmental charity following an investigation into a pollution incident triggered by the contractor during its work to upgrade the A19 Testo’s roundabout.
Costain completed the £130M upgrade, which involved building a new bridge over the A19 Testo’s roundabout with new slip…
Contracts worth £1.3bn have been signed by National Highways for the construction of the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme which has a total estimated capital cost figure of £1.7bn.
Known as the Stonehenge Tunnel, the project will see the construction of a new 12.8km dual carriageway to replace the existing…
Central Bedfordshire Council is inviting contractors to register interest ahead of procurement for a £400M highways works framework.
Although the procurement is being led by the council, it is doing so on behalf of the Eastern Highways Alliance which represents 10 councils including Cambridgeshire County Council, Essex County Council, Hertfordshire County…
Only 12 major road schemes in Northern Ireland will be brought forward after the nation’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI) announced it is pausing all others due to budget constraints.
The DfI has published a prioritised list of major road schemes that it will continue progressing, stating “delivery of the major roads…
Construction is set to begin on a new £6.2M link road in Dawlish, south Devon after Montel Civil Engineering was appointed to deliver the scheme.
The new road will provide better access to Dawlish, having been routed north of the town towards Exeter and the A379. The new link road and…
Three civils contractors have been picked to deliver up to £167M of maintenance and improvement works on the M25.
Jackson Civil Engineering Group, Octavius Infrastructure and Milestone Infrastructure have been selected by Connect Plus to deliver the M25 Motorway Network Improvements Works Call Off Framework Agreement, which includes highways construction and…
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for funding, which has said is the equivalent of 2p of existing fuel duty, to be used for pothole repairs in the light of analysis that reveals the dramatic reductions in local road repair spending in the UK.
LGA’s analysis revealed that investment in…
The government’s recent announcement of a review of the low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) policy is the latest front of a battle which has stretched from the arson of bollards in Oxford to the recent election campaign in Uxbridge.
The apparently simple features of LTNs – which use strategically placed planters and…
A 55-year-old rail bridge over the M62 in Rochdale will be demolished and rebuilt under plans submitted to the local council by Network Rail.
Referred to as bridge 48A, but known as Castleton Bridge, it carries the Calder Valley line, which runs from Manchester, passing Rochdale and Hebden Bridge onto Bradford…
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