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The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has called on Ofwat to take a leadership role in developing “consistent forward-looking metrics for defining and measuring asset health” across England.

Industry reaction to National Highways’ priorities for its third Roads Investment Strategy (RIS3), 2025 to 2030, has been mixed following its publication yesterday.

Climate and infrastructure chiefs have urged ministers to ramp up their efforts to prepare the built environment for extreme weather.

We have all heard it before, but it is worth repeating – achieving net zero is essential if we are to prevent a worsening climate emergency. Everyone, including the government, knows this. And yet, we are not progressing at the pace we need to. The transition to net zero has…

It is “difficult to say” whether the government is genuinely committed to improving the UK’s long-term flood resilience, according to the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).

Authorities and lawyers in the infrastructure sector have unanimously thrown their support behind the National Infrastructure Commission’s (NIC’s) recommendations for the government to streamline the infrastructure planning system.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has said that the last year has seen UK infrastructure delivery “stutter further just as the need for acceleration has heightened” and that “in a range of areas government is off track to meet its targets and ambitions”.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has “urged government to stick to the plan and get on with delivering HS2 to Manchester and the core Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) as quickly as possible” to boost the North’s economic productivity.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has been asked by the government to provide recommendations on the infrastructure planning system and in particular the role of National Policy Statements (NPS).

Sir John Armitt has been reappointed as chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) for a further two years, while Julia Prescot has been appointed as deputy chair following consultation with the chair.