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The A66 Northern Trans-Pennine Project application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Transport.

• Updated: 8 March 2024

Levelling Up funding was provisionally allocated to Staffordshire County Council for a package of transport projects on the major road network in Mid-Staffordshire.

• Updated: 19 February 2024

New dual carriageway to reduce congestion and improve journey times between Milton Keynes and Cambridge.

• Updated: 12 December 2023

Strategic approach builds on £36 billion funding from Network North plan to help strengthen connections across the UK.

• Updated: 7 December 2023

Government response to Union connectivity review includes multimillion-pound funding to improve transport links across UK.

• Updated: 7 December 2023

Redirected HS2 funding totalling £8.3 billion to support biggest-ever road resurfacing programme across England.

• Updated: 20 November 2023

Redirected HS2 funding to resurface more than 5,000 miles of road across the country, improving journeys for all.

• Updated: 17 November 2023

The deadline for the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine DCO decision has been extended until 7 March 2024.

• Updated: 8 November 2023

The deadline for the A1 in Northumberland – Morpeth to Ellingham Development Consent Order decision has been extended.

• Updated: 5 September 2023

Improvements to A38 Bromsgrove will reduce journey times and boost connectivity for residents in the West Midlands.

• Updated: 3 August 2023

Planned work will reduce congestion, improve air quality and provide faster local journeys in Britain’s 'rural capital of food'.

• Updated: 9 March 2023

National Highways has confirmed today that plans to upgrade junction 10 on the M25, one of the busiest in the country, are going on show next week.

• Updated: 16 June 2022

Government response to the Union Connectivity Review expected to be published later in 2022.

• Updated: 26 May 2022

National Highways has awarded a £460 million contract to Kier to design and deliver an upgrade to the A417 between Gloucester and Swindon.

• Updated: 22 April 2022

The proposal for the biggest investment on the north’s road network in a generation is moving into a new phase thanks to vital feedback from the public.

• Updated: 18 March 2022

National Highways has today revealed its preferred route for a multi-million-pound scheme that will fill in the dual carriageway gap on the crucial A46 trade corridor which connects the M5 with Humber Ports.

• Updated: 24 February 2022

The £355m upgrade will improve port access, reduce congestion and enhance safety as well as connections between the city centre and tourist and recreational facilities.

• Updated: 24 January 2022

New research has been carried out which will shed some light on how street lighting could be used to pave the way for autonomous vehicles in the future.

• Updated: 24 January 2022

Over two weekends last December, specialist teams used a 750-tonne crane to lift 32 beams - weighing a combined 720 tonnes - into place at Binley junction, Coventry

• Updated: 18 January 2022

Updated plans for upgrading one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in South-East England have been unveiled by National Highways today

• Updated: 11 January 2022