Transport & Planning Highlights — external
Active travel investment is growing across the UK. Through our partnership with AECOM, we're calling for network planning to shape decisions from the outset so individual schemes create coherent, usable networks.
Transformational reform set out in counterpart to Better Connected, says expert – Highways News
The Government’s integrated transport strategy Better Connected does a tremendous job of setting out a people-centred vision for integrated transport, one which is ‘deliberately framed around the high-level principles of ‘People, Place and Partnership’ and eight priorities that centre on simplicity, safety, accessibility, health, development, data, decision-making and local empowerment.’ However, it is the updated Local Transport Plans guidance, published on the same day back in April and holding statutory force, that sets out what authorities must include in their plans and how performance will be monitored. And it is this guidance which provides the meat of LTAs’ new obligations.
Permitted development rights for electricity network ground investigations - GOV.UK
Seeking views on proposed permitted development rights for ground investigations and surveys for electricity network infrastructure. This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 4 September 2026