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Back Published 05 March 2025 Press Release A section of the old A30 in Cornwall has this week reopened as the new B3288, providing improved connectivity for local communities. Since opening the new dual carriageway last June as part of the A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross road upgrade, National Highways and principal contractors Costain have been continuing ancillary work, such as local road connections, landscaping, hedging and planting along the 8.7-mile route. As part of that programme, w…

National Highways Limited Social Enterprise Dynamic Purchasing System SUPPLIER PACK PART A A1 – Overview of the SEDPS Page 1 of 22 A1 – Overview of the SEDPS Final Version 4 – March 2025 1. Introduction National Highways is the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England’s motorways and major A roads, also known as the Strategic Road Network (SRN). National Highways is committed to ensuring its customers are safe whilst travelling on the network, and that the net…

Back Published 28 November 2024 Press Release National Highways is partnering with The Tree Council to support multiple community projects by donating thousands of trees to charities, local communities and heritage and wildlife sites across the UK to benefit biodiversity. National Highways is partnering with The Tree Council to support multiple community projects by donating thousands of trees to charities, local communities and heritage and wildlife sites across the UK to benefit biodivers…

Back Published 06 January 2025 Press Release News The television series focuses on archaeological finds over the last year and begins its twelfth series tomorrow with a look at a Roman stone coffin. Due to be broadcast at 8pm on BBC2, and presented by Professor Alice Roberts, the series opener features the story of an enormous hand carved stone coffin that had laid undisturbed since its burial in Roman times over 1,500 years ago. A team of archaeologists from Headland Archaeology set to w…

Jump to section Purpose Why What How Principles Value Get involved Innovation and research strategy "We live in an era of both great opportunity and great challenge for our industry. We see the potential for the greatest changes in vehicles for a century and our customers rightly expect safe, reliable and informed journeys and value from their investment as taxpayers. All this is set against a backdrop of a climate and nature emergency and our immediate need to respond to the Covid-19 p…

Back Published 29 January 2024 Press Release National Highways has joined forces with its Wiltshire partners to help improve safety along the A303 at Chicklade. Working with both Wiltshire Police and Wiltshire Council, the company has identified safety issues with residents’ access onto the single carriageway section of the A303, and has now reduced the speed limit from 50mph to 40mph as part of an ongoing trial. As part of the road safety study, National Highways has introduced a permanen…

Back Published 28 July 2023 Blog Our response to an article in The Guardian which appeared on 27 July 2023. ‘National Highways accused of systemic failure on cycling provision in England’ was the headline on a story in The Guardian. It went on to claim ‘the government owned body in charge of trunk roads was using a loophole to deliver substandard shared use paths in rural areas’. The Guardian article talks about a ‘loophole’, but we don’t recognise that as a description of our design stan…

Back Published 15 May 2023 Press Release The playground at a Nottingham pre-school has had a facelift thanks to the team behind upgrades to the nearby A52. Staff from National Highways and two of its contractors on parts of the A52 Nottingham Junctions improvement scheme, Griffiths Farrans Joint Venture and WSP, volunteered their time as part of a commitment to give back to the local community.  Silverdale Pre-school approached the team after the community centre where it is based was used…

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Back Published 23 September 2024 Press Release National Highways will be trialling the lowest carbon asphalt resurfacing scheme ever attempted on England’s motorways and major A roads. The trial, which will begin in Yorkshire on the A64 from Bramham to Headley Bar, involves using a new asphalt that has been tested by top engineers at the University of Nottingham. The trial is expected to reduce carbon emissions by nearly 70%, from 321 tonnes to 96 tonnes. This is equivalent to 229 one-way …