The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Better Roads

Meeting, 6 December 2022

All Party Parliamentary Group on Better Roads Meeting 6 December 2022 Dining Room C, Parliament   Parliamentarian Attendees: Sir Christopher Chope MP (Chair)Sir Bill Wiggin MPSir Greg Knight MP Non-Parliamentarians in attendance Rick Green, Asphalt Industry AllianceMalcolm Simms, Asphalt Industry AllianceKatharine Kelly, Institute of Highway EngineersMartin Polland, Institute of Highway EngineersSamantha Stagg, JRPR on behalf […]

Inaugural Meeting 17 May 2022

Parliamentarian Attendees:Sir Christopher Chope MPLord Kirkhope of HarrogateAndrew Bridgen MPSir Greg Knight MPMichael Fabricant MPSir Bill Wiggin MPGavin Newlands MP ApologiesLilian Greenwood MPGareth Bacon MPGreg Smith MP Non-Parliamentarian attendees:Malcolm Simms, Asphalt Industry AllianceIan Lancaster, EurobitumeStephen Webb, Institute of Highway EngineersMartin Polland, Institute of Highway EngineersAlex Guyver, Office of Sir Christopher ChopeSamantha Stagg, JRPR on behalf […]

Asphalt Industry Alliance report: Annual Local Authority Road maintenance survey (ALARM) survey │ March 21 2023

Every year the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) commissions an independent survey of local authority highway departments in England (including London) and Wales. The Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey provides detailed insight into the funding and conditions of the local road network, based on information provided directly by those responsible for its maintenance. Now […]

September 3, 2019 – APPG Highways report on benefits of adopting Warm Mix solutions

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Highways has issued a report highlighting how the use of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) can reduce carbon emissions and improve efficiencies on highways projects. WMAs are manufactured and laid at lower temperatures than traditional asphalts, using less energy and delivering meaningful carbon savings without compromising performance. Their use can reduce […]

9th July 2019

The second meeting of the group this year saw Brian Kent, National Technical Director at  Tarmac and Chairman of the Mineral Products Association’s Asphalt Committee, set out the industry’s concern that take-up of warm mix asphalt – which offers considerable environmental benefits over hot mixed asphalt – has been disappointingly low to date. Warm mix […]

March 26, 2019 – Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) Survey 2019

This year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey reports early signs that an increase in local authority highway maintenance budgets is beginning to stem the decline in the condition of the local road network. Nevertheless, increased investment is still falling short of the amount needed to maintain local roads to target conditions, with years […]

12 March 2019

John Lamb, President of the Local Government Technical Advisers Group, set out the benefits of switching to a holistic approach to highway maintenance budgets. He explained to the group, which is chaired by Sir Christopher Chope MP, that permitting local authorities to allocate road maintenance funding where it is most needed, would lead to improvements […]

27th November 2018

APPG Chairman, Sir Christopher Chope MP, welcomed Oxfordshire County Council representatives Councillor Yvonne Constance, Cabinet Member for the Environment (including Transport) and Paul Fermer, Assistant Director – Infrastructure Operations, to the last meeting of 2018. Cllr Constance set out how the council has implemented a forward-thinking approach to investing in roads maintenance to improve conditions […]

10 July 2018

The Group was delighted to welcome Jesse Norman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport to the meeting.

March 20, 2018 – Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) Survey 2018

The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s (AIA) latest ALARM survey reports that that you could drive around the world on the length of local authority roads that could fail in the next 12 months – with cash-strapped local authorities reporting that more than 24,400 miles of road could need maintenance in the next year. Now in its […]