Author Archives: Rob Hakimian

The new transport secretary has said the new motto of the Department for Transport (DfT) is “move fast and fix things” as she set out five priorities to deliver “the biggest overhaul to transport in a generation”.

Five out of six shortlisted firms have successfully submitted initial tenders for small modular reactors (SMRs) to Great British Nuclear (GBN) as the body’s competition for rolling out the technology in the UK moves forward.

Moving from “predict and provide” to “decide and provide” for long-term transport planning is critical to creating a transport network that supports the UK’s aspirations for economic prosperity, social mobility and carbon net zero.

The prime minister and deputy prime minister today (9 July) gathered all of England’s regional mayors to “begin the process of shifting power out of Westminster through a major programme of devolution”.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) has released detailed images and video of inside and outside the proposed £100M Liverpool Baltic train station as the public consultation commences.

The new Labour government has arrived in Number 10 – we look at the decisions relating to infrastructure such as energy, transport and planning that need resolving by the new ministers.

The government has announced the immediate lifting of the de facto ban on onshore wind development in England, among other actions to speed up planning decisions.

The Labour Party is now the governing party of the UK following its landslide victory in the General Election and the civil engineering sector has uniformly said it is standing by to support its ambitions.

Louise Haigh has been elected as Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley for a fourth time and has been named as transport secretary in new prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet.

The number of British construction worker fatalities increased to 51 in the last year, which shows that “lessons aren’t being learned” according to safety experts.