With government moving toward granting local authorities the power to enforce pavement parking restrictions, we need to explore what the change could mean for road safety, parking policy and how councils approach street space in the future. The Department for Transport has confirmed that it intends... continue
Oxfordshire County Council is to discuss how to invest £4.2m raised from its temporary congestion charge scheme at a cabinet meeting in May. Proposals include: a discounted £3 combined parking and bus to run from 1 June until 31 December; funding to deal with ‘missing... continue
Six county council elections delayed from last year will be held on 7 May despite the Government’s efforts to postpone them again. These were the councils selected for local government reorganisation in Devolution Priority Programme areas. The Government sought to postpone some of these... continue
More than 5,000 seats representing around 30% of all council representatives will be contested at local elections in England on 7 May. Over half of these seats are either in London or the South East of England. Votes will be cast in 32 London boroughs, 32 metropolitan boroughs, 18 unitary... continue
Central and local government must take urgent action to decarbonise... continue
Parking policy can act as a “critical lever” to cut... continue
There are now over 119,000 public electric vehicle chargers across the UK, reports EV infrastructure information... continue
Energy secretary Ed Miliband has set out a package of new measures designed to accelerate the UK’s clean energy transition in response to... continue
It is a privilege to be here at the National Growth Debate. This summit tackles one of the... continue
UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has set out measures to ensure clean, homegrown power as the government plans to break the link between volatile gas prices and electricity. Miliband also wants to... continue
A once treeless, vehicle-dominated street in Waltham Forest has been transformed by rain gardens, widened footways and the removal of parking spaces. Sutherland Road now boasts around 500 square metres of rain gardens, 500 square metres of footway, 68... continue
‘Mini Switzerland’ project to get £6m for Peak District trial In Better Connected, the Government announced it would provide £6m funding to support an integrated transport demonstrator programme in Hope... continue
The Government’s Better Connected integrated transport strategy, published... continue
There was a significant increase in the number of Blue Badges held in England compared with the previous year, new data from the DfT shows. In the year ending March 2025, the total number of Blue Badges was 3.07 million, an 8% increase (228,000 badges) compared with March 2024. Approximately 5.2%... continue
Increasing the cost of penalty charge notices and educating drivers would bring down the surplus generated by traffic enforcement, councils have told a study carried out for the DfT. The analysis, by National Centre for Social Research, found that all local authority respondents disagreed... continue
A disabled driver will take on a 2,800-mile return journey from Birmingham to Spain in a fully electric vehicle during May, putting... continue
Wayve, a UK company developing embodied AI for... continue
Parking is very similar to being an MP. There is always someone who thinks they could do a better job! My... continue
Thurrock Council has awarded Zest along-term... continue
Parking sits at the intersection of network management, place... continue
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