6 March 2018
Clive Hall, Head of Highways & Community Services at Herefordshire Council, spoke to the meeting on behalf of the Midlands Service Improvement Group (MSIG) about its response to the Department for Transport’s consultation on proposals for a major road network (MRN). Clive’s presentation can be seen in full here, and included the following points: While […]
Next meetings
The first meeting of 2018 will be held at 1pm on Tuesday, 6 March and will examine the DfT’s recent proposals on setting up a Major Roads network (MRN). A report of the meeting will be posted in due course. Please contact Simon.Vanderbyl@mineralproducts.org if you have any queries in the meantime. Simon.Vanderbyl@mineralproducts.org
21 November 2017
Speaker, Dr Emily Andrews of the Institute for Government, provided an overview of the recently published Performance Tracker which brings together more than 100 data series to provide a comprehensive picture of Government s performance in running key public services. She explained that the chapter on local neighbourhood services, which includes data on road maintenance […]
11 July 2017
AGM:Following the General Election, Chairman Christopher Chope welcomed members and guests to the inaugural AGM of the Group in this Parliament. The election of the Officers of the Group en bloc was proposed by Dr Lewis and seconded by Andrew Bridgen and carried unanimously. Full minutes of the AGM available here. Meeting:Malcolm Simms, technical director […]
July 5, 2017 – Transport Investment Strategy: Moving Britain Ahead
Department for Transport The Department for Transport has published a new strategy explaining how local roads will benefit from a multi-billion-pound investment fund and the proposed creation of a major road network. The strategy will be funded by reallocating some funds raised by the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED), with the aim to improve connectivity […]
March 30, 2017
New skills survey calls to make the highways sector fit for the future A survey by Highways UK into UK skills highlights that 71% of people working within the highways sector are concerned that staff shortages within their organisations could impact on the future delivery of client programmes. 61% of respondents to the survey expect […]
March 28, 2017 – Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) Survey 2017
The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s (AIA) latest ALARM survey reports that that within the next five years one in six of our roads will need to be repaired, or even closed. The cumulative effect of an ageing network, decades of underfunding, increased traffic and wetter winters has led to around 17 per cent of all local […]
Roadfile
Roadfile provides a credible source of information for UK road-related statistics. It offers a useful hub of collated data to highlight the important role the road network plays in our keeping communities connected and in supporting the economy. The updates website, now supported by the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) now contains 2016 figures. Go to: […]
14 March 2017
Challenges facing our local roads – speakers included the Asphalt Industry Alliance’s (AIA) Chairman, Alan Mackenzie, AIA Technical Director, Malcolm Simms and the Institute of Highways Engineers’ (IHE) Chief Executive, Richard Hayes. Alan set out the key findings from the Annual Local Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey 2017. The report highlights how the cumulative effects of […]
October 15, 2013
– Managing a valuable asset: improving local road condition This report is the result of several discussion between members of the Highway Maintenance Group and various experts, industry representatives and local politicians. The refrain is always “something must be done”, but no one seems to be able to agree on what must be done… The […]