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September 12, 2026
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Stay informed with breaking news from the UK highways sector. Coverage includes funding updates, traffic management, major road schemes, and project milestones.

HDS and Kier win Innovation Award

Highways Drone Services and Kier win CECA Midlands Innovation Award for Birmingham street lighting surveys
Marc Hobbins September 11, 2026
Gritter on route

£200,000 more grit: Aberdeen’s winter roads budget gets topped up before the cold arrives
Jack Moriarty September 11, 2026
The M4 has been closed

Two junctions, both directions and the kind of M4 closure that scrambles a motorway fast
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
industry representatives meeting at McCann Ltd’s training centre in Nottingham

Highways firms unite behind RAISE roadworker abuse reporting platform
Jack Moriarty September 11, 2026
the visible edges of the road network, not just the carriageway

£7.6m for verges, footways and more: Cardiff’s environmental works plan reaches the roadside
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
why tyre safety keeps returning

Tyre safety is the quiet UK road risk PACTS thinks policy still underserves
Jack Moriarty September 11, 2026
Street lighting

One village lane stayed dark, and that changed a housing scheme in Medway
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

Next to the asphalt plant, Leeds gets a new recycling facility for old road material
Megan Gilks September 10, 2026


A Norfolk road, one bike and the 1.5-metre rule drivers keep getting wrong
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

Fife Council tenders £12.8m roadstone materials framework
Megan Gilks September 10, 2026
Software contracts rarely feel like roadworks

£21m and no competition: the grid data deal widening Palantir’s UK footprint
Jack Moriarty September 9, 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
EV charging support contract

£1.2m, two years and the quieter job behind motorway EV charging
Jack Moriarty September 9, 2026
drainage outfalls on England’s major roads

By 2030, England’s high-risk road runoff map could reshape motorway drainage priorities
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
school crossing wardens

Body cameras reach Sheffield lollipop patrols after abuse at crossings
Jack Moriarty September 9, 2026

East Riding street lights are being switched off

2,500 lamps, 500 tonnes and the A roads East Riding plans to darken
Jack Moriarty September 9, 2026
Concrete breaking away from a bridge edge

Two bridges, one motorway closure: the Gloucester M5 job driven by falling concrete
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026
temporary traffic control becomes part of the build

Relief roads start with disruption and Cullompton is at that awkward stage now
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026

CECA North East has appointed a vice chair

A regional vice chair role just got filled, and that matters more than it sounds
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026
storm damage cut into the carriageway

Half a road, one winter and the Devon seafront repair race now under way
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026

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

A20 protest closure

A20 protest closure: the eastbound Kent road job that starts after the traffic stops
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026
burst water pipes

One Essex track, repeated bursts and a 71-year-old doing the patching himself
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026
Glasgow traffic checkpoints

September checkpoints put roadside stops back in view for Glasgow drivers
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026

flags on streets

The awkward roadside rule hidden inside a row about flags
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026
A £30m rework of M65 Junction 5 is moving ahead

£30m, one motorway junction and the lane swaps coming to M65 Junction 5
Jack Moriarty September 8, 2026

A business park road gets resurfaced, and that matters more than it sounds
Megan Gilks September 7, 2026


£106m to keep Bromley moving: the quiet contracts behind London’s everyday road repairs
Megan Gilks September 7, 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

September 14 is only the start: M27 Junction 10 opens in phases
Megan Gilks September 7, 2026

A stranded crane shut the Dartford West Tunnel, and the clean-up outlasted the first breakdown
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
a street light column staying live

One buy, six roadside systems and a bigger push into the kit drivers never notice
Jack Moriarty September 4, 2026

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