News

Industry news

September 2010

Audit Commission

To help LAs decide maintenance priorities.

Design and Maintenance Guidance

DfT wants yours! Please complete the on-line survey.

Biodiversity Toolkit Pilot

The Biodiversity Planning Toolkit is a new versatile online resource - aimed at helping users to incorporate biodiversity into planning system and new development.

Test out the Beta version.

Skills for sustainable growth

A BIS consultation.

2012 Olympics

Health and Safety learning legacy - free resources.

Data.gov.uk

Suggest government datasets you want made available. Check out the transport and weather data already on.

August 2010

Flood Risk

Defra/EA announce skills strategy, forthcoming information portal and £2M fund. See Mayer Brown's development.

Big Society:

Vanguard LAs vote how to spend budgets.

Site Safety on new developments

A code of conduct from NE housebuilders and utilities.

Essex Development Management Policies

View and comment (30 August).

July 2010

Winter Resilience Review

Winter Resilience Review: Interim Report on coping with severe weather.

Infrastructure 2010 report

Read ICE's State of the Nation: Infrastructure 2010 report.

UK Roads Board

TRO advertising: UK Roads Board wants your views. (31/08/2010)

Cycle safety mirrors

Cycle safety mirrors to be mounted on London's traffic signals.

Planning Inspectorate

Major Infrastructure Planning Unit within the Planning Inspectorate replaces IPC.

TfL and motorcycles

TfL uncertain on motorcycles in bus lanes.

DfT benchmarking tool

DfT benchmarking tool for LAs to compare their performance.

IGEM

IGEM's draft standards for trenchless construction.

Road Safety Knowledge Centre

The Road Safety Knowledge Centre wants your reports, research, campaigns.

Road Casualties OnLine

roadcasualtiesonline: new DfT statistics site.

2010 Casualty figures

Figures show a drop - will it last?

EuroRAP

EuroRaps Annual benchmark survey of A Roads published.

Local Design Standards

andy.wooley@atkinsglobal.com wants good examples for a DfT reference site.

Shared Space

GuideDogs and RBKC compromise on Exhibition Road shared space.