DfT says 2030 phase-out consultation is 'how, not if'
24/12/2024
The Department for Transport has launched a consultation on how to restore the 2030 phase-out date for new purely petrol and diesel cars.
24/12/2024
Former Conservative transport minister Rachel Maclean is among 38 new peers who will enter the House of Lords.
24/12/2024
M Group Services, whose businesses include Milestone Infrastructure, has appointed former retail boss and Tory MP Archie Norman as non-executive chairman.
24/12/2024
Shropshire Council has sought to shrug off a new estimate of the carbon impact of its controversial relief road scheme by increasing the budget and timescale for its pledge to offset the scheme’s emissions.
24/12/2024
Utility firms have hit back against the Government’s plans to clamp down on disruption caused by street works.
20/12/2024
The latest data on the condition of local authority roads in England shows the number of roads in the worst ‘red’ condition largely stable but more roads moving from green to amber.
20/12/2024
Ministers have confirmed an extra £500m for local road maintenance in England next year but a quarter of the cash will be held back on the basis of an incentive process that has yet to be worked out.
19/12/2024
The Government's revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is effective immediately.
19/12/2024
National Highways has now fully opened a new all lane running scheme (ALR) that narrowly escaped the cancellation of the smart motorway programme last year.
19/12/2024
National Highways has opened a new A road and motorway junction to traffic as part of a major improvements scheme.
18/12/2024
Leading disabled rights campaigner Lord Holmes has raised concerns over the Government's plan to devolve micromobility regulation powers, calling the schemes a 'clear and present danger' to vulnerable road users.
17/12/2024
Mayoral authorities will be offered a place on a new Mayoral Data Council which will work with central government departments on digital services and solutions, under plans outlined by ministers.
17/12/2024
Local and central government are set for a showdown after council leaders objected to the Government’s plans to potentially force authorities to reorganise into new, much larger unitaries and mayoral areas.
16/12/2024
Government puts councils on path to unitary and mayoral status, supported with consolidated funding.
16/12/2024
Housing secretary Angela Rayner has granted planning permission for a £332m infrastructure project in Oxfordshire following a planning inspector’s recommendation.
16/12/2024
A trial on the A64 near Leeds has delivered what is thought to be the UK’s lowest level of carbon emissions for a resurfacing scheme on the strategic road network (SRN) without using carbon offsetting.
13/12/2024
The UK is on track to reach 300,000 public electric vehicle chargepoints by 2030, Parliament's spending watchdog has found.
13/12/2024
National Highways and Natural England have signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding outlining a framework for collaboration between the two organisations.
13/12/2024
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation has offered to host a new road safety board as part of efforts to support a wider, cross-sector, adoption of the Safe System approach to road risk.
13/12/2024
Areas with the highest unaffordability for housing and greatest potential for growth will be handed increased housebuilding targets under the Government’s planning overhaul.
11/12/2024
The delayed third Road Investment Strategy (RIS 3) will run for a full five years from 2026 to 2031, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed.
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