Greenspace and Wellbeing: A Good Practice Guide for Housing Associations, has been published by Linc Cymru in Wales. Housing associations are well placed to help deliver benefits from access to the outdoors and green space, and this guide is a good starting point for housing associations who want... continue
On behalf of the Eastern Highways Alliance (EHA), Essex County Council, will be seeking Contractors to undertake Highways Works including Structural Work, Surfacing, Road Works and Capital Schemes forHighways. Details are available online A bidders event will be held at 9am on the 21st January... continue
A coalition of businesses is urging the government to listen to the property sector’s views on the new code of practice for parking on private land. In a letter sent to the local government minister Luke Hall, representatives of Morrisons, British Land and Welcome Break warned that weakening... continue
The car was the driving force that accelerated the pace of life in the 20th century. This is the central idea of a new exhibition being staged at the V&A in London. The retrospective brings together a selection of cars that have never been on display in the... continue
Disabled people, frequent outpatient attenders, parents of sick children staying overnight, staff working night shifts and those regularly needing appointments will not have to pay for NHS car parking from April 2020, says the government. Hospital parking emerged as an issue during the general... continue
With changing travel trends and technologies placing growing... continue
Cambridgeshire County Council wants to ban non-electric buses from using the county’s bus lanes as part of plans to improve air quality. “As the Conservative administration at the county council, we intend to increase pressure on bus companies to swap to electric vehicles, by... continue
Lord Berkeley, the deputy chair of the Government’s review into HS2, has called on ministers to axe most of the project and focus instead on upgrading capacity on existing lines in the Midlands and north of England. The final... continue
Cambridgeshire County Council’s leader has called on... continue
The ruling Conservative administration on Cambridgeshire County Council has presented a package of actions to improve the county’s air quality without imposing... continue
When transport secretary Grant Shapps appeared before... continue
Whatever Lord Berkeley’s engineering capabilities might be, this ‘Dissenting Report’ has major gaps and weaknesses in its treatment of rail operations and service planning issues. Although happy to pontificate about HS2’s capabilities and propose alternative infrastructure... continue
The Welsh Government has abandoned plans to increase... continue
Two trials of app-based demand responsive transport services will be launched in Leeds this year. Kim Groves, chair of the West Yorkshire transport committee, said: “The two trials will see passengers using an app not only to book and pay for their journey but to find out where and at what... continue
An Open Data Service for bus service information will be launched early this year, the DfT has confirmed. The first information to be available will be routes and timetables, followed by fares and real-time data about bus locations from next year. Software developers will be able to build the... continue
Transport for London is seeking views on the first phase of a new four-mile cycleway between Greenwich and Woolwich in southeast London. The works include a two-way fully segregated 1.5-mile route between Charlton and Woolwich along the A206 Woolwich Road, extended bus lanes, six new pedestrian... continue
Twenty-nine London boroughs have been awarded a share of £4m to install 1,000 electric vehicle charging points in residential areas. The funding is a further tranche of the £13m that London received from the Office for Low Emission Vehicles’ Go Ultra Low City scheme.... continue
A team of transport academics and former local government transport and planning officers in Oxfordshire has questioned the value of the draft transport strategy of England’s Economic Heartland (EEH). POETS (Planning Oxfordshire’s Environment and Transport Sustainably) says the strategy... continue
Network Rail spent more than £70,000 on external legal support to fight the reopening a foot crossing on a Welsh branch line that would have cost to £203,000 to install and maintain over 20 years. The legal costs are, however, only a fraction of the costs Network Rail has incurred... continue
Details of a road user charging-based zero emission... continue
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