West Sussex County Council

£49m Lyminster bypass is now open

13/05/2025

The new Lyminster bypass – which cost roughly £49.87m – is now open, allowing for ‘faster and more convenient journeys’ between Littlehampton and Bognor Regis.

Council's signal switch enters final phase

21/03/2025

West Sussex County Council is entering the final stage of its three-year programme to change all traffic signals in the county from halogen to LED.

West Sussex digs deep for long-term surface fixes

04/11/2024

West Sussex County Council has repaired almost 40,000 'safety-related' highways defects in the last six months, including a trial of mastic asphalt repairs.

Conway to do battle on £200m framework

04/06/2024

FM Conway has been appointed to two of four lots on a highways capital works framework in West Sussex valued at a total of £200m over up to six years.

Conway keeps up the low carbon work in Sussex

04/04/2023

West Sussex County Council has awarded FM Conway two works packages worth an estimated value of £8m, following a round of mini competitions for capital works worth £16m during the new financial year.

£1.8m for UK’s 'largest local authority EV roll-out'

14/11/2022

West Sussex has become one of the first councils to announce its funding share from the latest round of the Department for Transport's On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme, winning a cash allocation of £1.8m.

Joy as £23m scheme opens with a bang

13/04/2022

A £23m improvement scheme with shared use walking and cycling paths in West Sussex has been officially opened.

West Sussex boosts highway spending again

24/03/2022

West Sussex County Council has agreed a £32m package of highways and transport spending for the forthcoming financial year, with an extra £21m from the council’s capital budget over the next five years.

Landbuild makes a royal sum with £1m business district deal

17/03/2022

West Sussex County Council has awarded local firm Landbuild a £1m contract for the second phase of a highways improvement scheme for the Manor Royal Business District.

Council promises long-term rewards with £17m spend

08/07/2021

West Sussex County Council has launched what it said is one of the biggest investments in the county’s highway infrastructure in the last decade.

A259 works delayed as costs rise again

07/06/2021

A major project to widen around 2km of single carriageway on the A259 in Angmering and Littlehampton to dual carriageway has been delayed by the COVID-19 crisis.

West Sussex is carrying on, so you don't have to

30/04/2020

Latest traffic volume statistics have prompted West Sussex County Council to plead for motorists to only travel if absolutely essential. . 

Innovative recycling behind £2.4m safety scheme

25/01/2019

West Sussex County Council and contractor Balfour Beatty are using an innovative recycling technique on a road safety scheme that has itself been described as ‘agenda-setting’.

Council delays works ahead of £15m dualling scheme

04/01/2019

West Sussex County Council has had to postpone preparatory work on a £15m dualling scheme as it awaits the contractor’s revised cost estimate.

‘Green solutions’ used in replacement bridge

14/08/2018

A council has hailed the road safety improvements and ‘green engineering’ it has introduced in a £580,000 project to replace a road bridge.

BBLP awarded £55m extension to West Sussex contract

26/01/2016

Balfour Beatty Living Places (BBLP) has been awarded a £55 million two-year extension to its highways maintenance contract with West Sussex County Council.

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