Roxton Road Bridge demolished for £1bn Black Cat scheme30/05/2025 Skanska has completed the final demolition work for the Roxton Road Bridge for the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement scheme. |
Black Cat scheme embarks on engineering feat the 'size of a whale'24/10/2024 National Highways will close the A421 in Bedfordshire for two weekends next month to install six massive steel beams for a new bridge as part of its £1bn A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme. |
Listed cottages to be destroyed for A428 scheme19/06/2024 National Highways is demolishing a Grade II listed building as part of its £1bn A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme. |
Work on £1bn Black Cat scheme finally begins...really, it does14/12/2023 Work on National Highways’ much-delayed £1bn A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme finally began this week. |
Black Cat to go ahead after court challenge fails23/05/2023 National Highways said it will begin putting plans in place for the start of main construction on the delayed A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements after a legal challenge to the scheme came to an end. |
£1bn Black Cat scheme faces legal challenge03/10/2022 Campaigners have lodged a High Court challenge over the Government’s decision to approve the £1bn A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme. |
£1bn Black Cat scheme gets green light19/08/2022 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has granted a Development Consent Order for National Highways to begin work on the much-delayed A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme, which is due to cost nearly £1bn. |
Mace's magic wins Stonehenge and Black Cat work17/06/2022 Mace has won a five-year contract to deliver commercial services on two of National Highways’ major projects through its Complex Infrastructure Programme (CIP). |
Skanska in luck with £500m Black Cat deal25/03/2021 Highways England has awarded Skanska a £507m contract to design and build the long-awaited A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements scheme. |
'Whole new approach' as Highways England consults again on £1.4bn Black Cat11/06/2020 A further consultation into the delayed A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement scheme will begin later this month. |
Consultation starts for RIS 2's Black Cat scheme06/06/2019 The Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed that the delayed £1.4bn A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme will now need to be funded from the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS 2). |
Black Cat junction to go triple deck under £1.4bn scheme20/02/2019 Highways England has announced its delayed £1.4bn plans to improve the Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet route, which includes one of the East of England’s most congested junctions. |
Jacobs wins HE design contract16/08/2016 Jacobs Engineering Group will work with Highways England to develop preferred design options for multiple highways schemes that are planned across the country. |
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