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September 12, 2026
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Comprehensive coverage of UK council highways projects. Updates on local authority procurement, frameworks, funding, and regional road maintenance.

Gritter on route

£200,000 more grit: Aberdeen’s winter roads budget gets topped up before the cold arrives
Jack Moriarty September 11, 2026
St Albans has adopted its Local Plan

A new St Albans Local Plan is in, and the road pressure sits between the lines
Jack Moriarty September 11, 2026
Traffic order changes, speed limit revisions and road humps

Road humps, TROs and speed limit changes: the quiet legal step that makes new roads work
Jack Moriarty September 11, 2026

Norfolk road services are being retendered

£100m in Norfolk road services, and the quiet contract split that decides who fixes what
Jack Moriarty September 11, 2026

£19bn a year, and Britain’s road procurement rules are getting in the way
Megan Gilks September 10, 2026

£7.8m over budget: Suffolk’s roads squeeze has reached the county books
Megan Gilks September 10, 2026


Derbyshire County Council tenders £40m contract for surface dressing works
Megan Gilks September 10, 2026

20mph on more roads: the Tewkesbury speed plan now out to residents
Megan Gilks September 10, 2026
A new school crossing in Peterborough

One school crossing, one missing patrol and Peterborough’s fix is now painted on the road
Jack Moriarty September 9, 2026

fix a road problem

A38 intervention refused: the awkward line between a local road and the national network
Jack Moriarty September 9, 2026
A new Pentre flood sensor is now in place

One flood sensor, one village ford and a faster warning system for Pentre
Jack Moriarty September 9, 2026

One county, two highway authorities? Why Worcestershire’s split row matters on the road
Megan Gilks September 8, 2026

flags on streets

The awkward roadside rule hidden inside a row about flags
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026

Inside the bat tunnel built for Britain’s new A421 link road
Megan Gilks September 7, 2026

Wiltshire just renamed its pothole task force, and that tells you how roads actually fail
Megan Gilks September 7, 2026


Extreme weather is now a council consultation topic, and Peterborough wants the public map first
Megan Gilks September 7, 2026
Milton Keynes highways schemes for 2026–2027

Redways, roads and lights: Milton Keynes maps out its 2026–2027 highways schemes
Jack Moriarty September 4, 2026
Campaigners say a York collapsing road off Lawrence Street is causing daily disruption

A York side street, two broken surfaces and the maintenance gap residents keep hitting
Jack Moriarty September 4, 2026


£30m investment for safer journeys along the ‘Shropshire Triangle’
Megan Gilks September 3, 2026
A winter gritting map can decide more about your morning than most road schemes ever will.

One gritting route decision can leave an entire garrison on the lower tier
Jack Moriarty September 3, 2026
A Hereford bridge closure has pushed a one-way system onto nearby streets

63 years old and suddenly shut: the Hereford bridge forcing a city into one-way traffic
Jack Moriarty September 2, 2026

Community 20 roads projects are using evidence, design and resident input to cut speeds and improve safety

20 neighbourhoods, £160,000 and one idea: roads planned with residents, not just for them
Jack Moriarty September 2, 2026
Weymouth Esplanade drew 955 parking fines

955 fines on one seafront road: where Dorset’s parking enforcement bites hardest
Jack Moriarty September 1, 2026
The Community Legacy Fund

The grant that cares about your diversion route as much as your village hall
Jack Moriarty August 28, 2026

Shropshire flood warnings have triggered round-the-clock highways cover

Yellow rain warnings mean 24-hour highways patrols are back on Shropshire’s roads
Jack Moriarty August 27, 2026
The most important road change in Littlehampton may be the one you never see on the carriageway.

One notice in Littlehampton can change your road faster than a council meeting
Jack Moriarty August 26, 2026
The A38 slip road closure at Streethay has been pushed back to April 2027

6 extra months on one A38 slip road and Staffordshire wants HS2 to do more than wait
Jack Moriarty August 25, 2026

Shropshire’s council-run charging network is heading for a tariff review

Shropshire’s EV charging tariff review is really about the price of a council-run network
Jack Moriarty August 25, 2026
Birmingham 20mph roads would become the standard on local routes

20mph on every local road? Birmingham’s plan is bigger than a speed sign swap
Jack Moriarty August 25, 2026
Road repairs rarely make headlines until the money behind them starts to wobble

£180m missing: the council budget gap that can reach your next road repair
Jack Moriarty August 24, 2026

Scottish Borders Council is looking for more roads staff

One council is short of roads workers and that reaches further than a vacancy list
Jack Moriarty August 21, 2026
A pothole is only a pothole once somebody decides it meets the threshold

Derbyshire says potholes are at a record low, the awkward number is what counts as a pothole
Jack Moriarty August 21, 2026

Playground celebrates new accessible roundabout thanks to National Highways donation
Marc Hobbins August 19, 2026

A Newquay cycle lane scheme on Cliff Road is moving from argument to asphalt

18 parking spaces, one cycle lane and the Newquay street being redrawn by autumn
Jack Moriarty August 19, 2026
The latest Scottish roads ranking puts Aberdeenshire first and Moray second

Scotland’s best roads are in Aberdeenshire and Moray is right behind it
Jack Moriarty August 18, 2026
A day with Hull’s road crews shows why 24-hour highways work is mostly the jobs you never see

A day with Hull’s road crews shows why 24-hour highways work is mostly the jobs you never see
Jack Moriarty August 17, 2026


4th worst in Scotland: where Highland’s roads are failing, and what that number really means
Megan Gilks August 17, 2026
£200m to tell Wiltshire which roads to fix first and how to make them last longer

£200m to tell Wiltshire which roads to fix first and how to make them last longer
Jack Moriarty August 14, 2026

The unread notices that give you three weeks to object before your street changes forever
Jack Moriarty August 12, 2026

LED Streetlights at sunset

Thousands of streetlights, one quiet transformation across Warrington and Liverpool
Highways Industry Editorial Team August 12, 2026

Bridge of Allan flood scheme opens public sessions as diggers move in
Megan Gilks August 12, 2026

Spring is when Shrewsbury’s ‘botched’ road layout gets rebuilt and the hard part is undoing what drivers already learned
Jack Moriarty August 7, 2026


£4.178m off the climate ledger: the council decision that could ripple into road spending
Jack Moriarty August 7, 2026

Five more years for Birmingham’s roads, and 2,300 defects a month still set the pace
Jack Moriarty August 7, 2026

National Highways unveils further safety investment in Cornwall’s roads
Megan Gilks August 6, 2026

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