Sinkhole investigations delayed24/02/2025 Authorities have delayed investigations into the cause of a huge sinkhole in a Surrey village, citing safety concerns. |
GRAHAM ready to start £42m Surrey highways scheme19/02/2025 Surrey County Council has awarded GRAHAM the contract to deliver critical improvements to the A320 north of Woking. |
Huge sinkhole appears in Surrey high street19/02/2025 The appearance of a 20 metre-wide sinkhole on the A25 in Surrey has been declared a major incident by agencies in the county. |
Surrey gets ahead of the pothole game with switch to AI15/01/2025 Surrey County Council is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to move away from manual inspections and solely use video and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to log potholes. |
Atkins strikes again with £40m Surrey deal09/11/2022 Surrey County Council has awarded Atkins a highways and infrastructure professional service contract worth more than £40m over five years. |
UK first as Surrey plans speed reduction trials on 60mph roads09/08/2022 Surrey County Council has announced plans to pilot speed limits of 20mph and 30mph on roads that were previously 60mph, in what is thought to be a UK first. |
Surrey in-sources from districts and boroughs08/08/2022 Surrey County Council is taking back responsibility for verge management and on-street parking from local councils to 'ensure a consistent approach'. |
Surrey seeks to maximise opportunities of £2.5bn roads deal12/10/2020 Surrey County Council is advertising a new highway maintenance contract that could be worth £2.5bn over 21 years, with the stated value of the deal having trebled in three months. |
Leafy Surrey seeks bidders for £800m roads deal25/06/2020 Surrey County Council is carrying out further pre-market engagement for a highway maintenance contract that could be worth £800m over 14-21 years. |
Surrey seeks market help with rethink of £615m highways services09/07/2019 Surrey County Council is consulting the market in what appears to be a major rethink of the delivery of its highways maintenance, construction and design services before the procurement of some £615m of work. |
Shoddy reinstatement 'put lives at risk'26/04/2019 BT has received what is thought to be one of the highest fines ever for ‘bad road repairs’, which ‘could have had fatal consequences’ according to the courts. |
Roadworker dies on Surrey roundabout scheme04/06/2018 A worker has died on site at a road improvement scheme in Surrey, after apparently being hit by plant machinery. |
Surrey CC outlines footpath improvement plans14/11/2016 Surrey County Council will improve almost 42 miles of footpaths next year. |
Young people on the road to a career in highways03/11/2016 A trial scheme aimed at providing young people with the skills to launch a highways career has proved so successful that it will be rolled out further next year. |
Kier wins £160m Surrey highways extension10/02/2016 Kier Group has been awarded a £160 million four-year extension to its highways maintenance contract with Surrey County Council. |
Kier and Surrey CC plan careers college to train highways workforce04/02/2016 Kier and Surrey County Council are set to launch a ‘construction academy’ that will see them train their own highways workforce. |
Increased congestion in Surrey10/12/2015 Heavy rush hour traffic is forcing Surrey drivers to set their alarm up to eight minutes earlier than five years ago in order to get to work on time. |
Fixing Surrey’s roads would cost £300m17/11/2015 Fixing all of Surrey’s roads today would cost nearly £300 million, the county council has revealed. |
Drive to overhaul roads saves £7m02/09/2015 More than £7 million-worth of taxpayers money has been saved as a result of Surrey County Council’s drive to make the county’s roads more pothole-proof. |
Surrey CC wants money from Roads Fund spent on local roads29/07/2015 Surrey County Council wants money from the government’s new Roads Fund to be spent on local roads. |
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