Campaign group Bristol Airport Action Network (BAAN) will today mount its legal challenge in the High Court against the expansion of Bristol Airport.
BAAN was granted the legal challenge in May. It’s the latest in a tug-of-war about the expansion, which would increase the airport’s capacity from 10M to 12M annual…
Bam Nuttall has completed work on a railway line between Inverness and Aberdeen as part of the £14M Inverness Airport Station programme.
After conducting 11 days of work Bam Nuttall and its project partners finished the works between Inverness and Nairn as part of a programme of enhancements for the station…
Conservative MP for the Forest of Dean Mark Harper has been hired as transport secretary, less than two months after Anne-Marie Trevelyan took the role – will his guidance of the Department for Transport differ much from what we expected of his predecessor?
Prior to becoming a politician, Harper was an…
Network Rail begins its next programme of works for the £14M construction of Inverness Airport Station today.
The work will close a section of the line between Inverness and Aberdeen for 11 days. Engineers will work around the clock during this time to carry out extensive work between Inverness and Nairn…
Ryanair has lodged an objection against operator Dublin Airport Authority’s (DAA) plans to build a tunnel under the airport.
The Irish airline believes the £175M proposal will “contribute towards an excessively high per passenger price cap and damage the recovery of Irish aviation”. BMA Planning has submitted the objection on behalf…
The States of Guernsey will vote on whether to move ahead with plans to expand and refurbish the airport on the island of Alderney at an inflated cost of £24M, double the £12M sum agreed in 2019.
The plan is known is Option C+ and will involve resurfacing, widening and strengthening…
The autonomous light rail link being built to connect Luton Airport with Luton Parkway station has been delayed again.
The rail link, known as Luton DART, was originally due to open in 2021 but was pushed back to the end of 2022 following delays during incurred during the pandemic. A spokesperson…
New transport secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has backed the expansion of Heathrow Airport during a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.
During the meeting, Trevelyan declared herself a “supporter” of the plans to build a third runway and downplayed environmental concerns attached to it, citing emerging clean fuels. The…
In early September, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced that the examination period for infrastructure projects could be shortened from six months to four months, that there would be a forthcoming infrastructure action plan and that there would be fixed timescales for non-material amendments to Development Consent…
In last week’s mini budget, the UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng made renewed commitments to address the UK’s “slow” and “fragmented” planning system. As well as applying tax incentives for businesses within proposed new “investment zones”, Kwarteng announced they would serve as “designated development sites” within which planning processes would be…
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