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Following the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement to the House of Parliament on 29 July 2024, the A27 Arundel Bypass will not be taken forward. Start date Cancelled End date N/A Cost N/A Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 16 January 2025 Withdrawal of notification of development and route protection order We have withdrawn the notification of development along with the route protection order for this scheme. We had originally submitted these documents with West Sus…

From January 2024 we are set to build an additional 10 emergency areas on the M1 between junction 30 near Barlborough in Derbyshire and junction 31 at Aston in South Yorkshire. This is in addition to the existing six. Start date January 2024 End date January 2025 Cost TBC Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 12 December 2024 Progress update - December 2024 We're pleased to let our customers know, that having been delayed by the storm last week, we have now removed the remai…

From June 2023 we are set to build an additional 12 emergency areas on the M1 between junction 32 (Thurcroft) and junction 35a (Stocksbridge). This is in addition to the existing 8 emergency areas. Start date June 2023 End date Winter 2024 Cost TBC Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 23 October 2024 We've completed our work between junctions 34 and 35A We’ve finished ten emergency areas in this section of work, and if you drive it you'll notice we've removed a large amount…

There are a variety of early career opportunities on the A428 We have many opportunities for local people to kick-start their careers via apprenticeships, work placements and graduate programmes. These will be in a wide range of disciplines from site-based roles such as steel fixers and operatives, to office-based ones like quantity surveying and engineering. We’ll also be championing career progression, with apprenticeships from intermediate to degree level and graduate programmes designed w…

We will deliver net zero corporate emissions by 2030, maintenance and construction emissions by 2040 and road user emissions by 2050 Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 2080 accreditation Our management system to reduce carbon during the design, construction, and operation of England’s strategic road network has achieved Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 2080 accreditation. PAS 2080 ‘carbon management in infrastructure’ is a global specification for managing whole-life carbon in infra…

Use 'safety moments' when talking about safety with your team. Please feed back to us with your safety moments and suggestions. Safety moment generator Use this tool to generate a safety moment to discuss with your team. If you've used the one you have chosen before, select again to find a new one. 1 Who is your local mental health first aider? Would you consider going to them? Pick a new Safety Moment If you have any ideas for safety moments we can add to our generator, please let us know …

Our new National Highways Common Induction is now available for anyone who works on a National Highways construction site. The induction is part of the National Highways Passport Scheme, where anyone who works on one of our construction sites has a card that can be scanned to show their level of training and skills. You need to sign up to the scheme to be able to complete the National Highways Common Induction. An improved induction for multiple sites The induction takes just one and a half h…

Our archaeological investigations so far have included a range of detailed surveys of areas of land that will be disturbed by construction both inside and outside the World Heritage Site. Almost two square miles of “geophysical” surveys along the entire length of the scheme and ground penetrating radar within the World Heritage Site allowed us to see beneath the soil before anything was dug. We also looked for and collected items on the surface of ploughed areas. These showed us where to explo…

We'll support community wellbeing by tackling local environmental impacts and increasing climate resilience. In this section Our purpose as an organisation is to connect people and places. This doesn't stop with roads. It's our responsibility to do what we can to connect communities with amenities, nature, culture and history. Being a good neighbour We want to protect our neighbours health, wellbeing, quality of life and ‘sense of place’. Key to this is a strategic road network that tackl…

Check out our current vacancies, early careers, how we're engaging local students and how to be a part of our supply chain. In this section The A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet scheme will improve connectivity between Milton Keynes, Bedford, St Neots and Cambridge, bringing communities together and supporting long term growth in the region, and we need your help to design, build and operate it. During construction we will provide work for local people - including those employed directly to bui…