Road Repairs

£1 Billion Boost to Repair Britain’s Run Down Transport Infrastructure

£1billion investment to repair UK roads, b...

Jun 18, 2025No Comments

The Chancellor has unveiled a £1 billion “Structures Fund” to restore distressed transport infrastructure across England, backed by a further £590 million to advance the long‑promised Lower Thames

Misery continues from ‘pot hole-plagued’ local roads

Just 3% of local roads received any road ma...

Apr 09, 2025Comments off

Just 3% of England’s 183,054-mile council-run road network received any form of road maintenance in the last 2023/24 financial year, new government data analysed by

Misery continues from ‘pot hole-plagued’ local roads

Misery continues from ‘pothole-plague...

Mar 20, 2025Comments off

A pothole has been filled every 18 seconds, every day, for 10 years* in England and Wales, but still the backlog of carriageway repairs has

National Highways completes complex concret...

Jul 05, 2022Comments off

A National Highways engineer has spoken of her pride at delivering a complex £1.5m repair programme to the concrete foundations of the M6 in Birmingham.

Completed M5 Bridge

National Highways reopens M5 junction 11 on...

Mar 08, 2022Comments off

A major upgrade of two bridges supporting a major gyratory linking the M5 and A40 in Gloucestershire has been completed on schedule, and in time

Local roads to benefit from multimillion-po...

Aug 23, 2021Comments off

The Government has announced a multimillion-pound initiative to improve local roads across England. Unveiled on 13 August, the package will see councils receive a share of

Anti-ageing cream for roads!

Apr 19, 2021Comments off

Highways England is trialing a new type of material for resurfacing roads which aims to help them last ‘significantly’ longer and reduce the need for

‘Up-down’ approach to highways ...

Apr 07, 2021Comments off

A legacy of inconsistent funding is still preventing local authorities from being able to provide long term, cost effective maintenance improvements for local roads. That’s

Funding to fix potholes allocated to local ...

Feb 15, 2021Comments off

Councils across England have today been allocated their share of £500 million for highways maintenance, with the funding expected to fix the equivalent of 10 million potholes across the country. It is the second instalment

Highways England: What a difference a year ...

Feb 05, 2021Comments off

Fascinating new footage released by Highways England offers a bird’s eye view of progress being made on the £78 million transformation of a busy M6