The UK must maintain a privatised water sector if it is to achieve the necessary level of investment in infrastructure for future water security, the NIC chair has argued.
At the end of June, the immediate departure of Thames Water chief executive Sarah Bentley resigned with immediate effect as its performance…
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has warned of the scale of the decarbonisation challenge ahead for UK infrastructure in a glimpse of its forthcoming National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA).
The NIC produces its NIA report once every five years, with the first published in 2018 and the second to be published this…
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.
NIC chief executive James Heath wrote last week to Ofwat chief executive David Black, voicing concerns about the lack of a consistent understanding of…
Industry reaction to National Highways’ priorities for its third Roads Investment Strategy (RIS3), 2025 to 2030, has been mixed following its publication yesterday.
The Strategic Road Network Initial Report for 2025-2030 from National Highways sets out its advice to government on priorities for England's motorways and A-roads for the next five…
Climate and infrastructure chiefs have urged ministers to ramp up their efforts to prepare the built environment for extreme weather.
The chairs of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) Adaption Committee wrote to deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden and environment secretary Thérèse Coffey yesterday 26 April…
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).
Speaking at NCE’s Flood Resilience conference on yesterday, NIC assistant director Ed Beard said that the government’s lack of commitment to long-term flood resilience has been…
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.
In February, chancellor Jeremy Hunt tasked the NIC with undertaking a review of the planning process for infrastructure to build on the government’s…
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 NIC has published its Infrastructure Progress Review 2023…
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.
NIC chief executive James Heath made this plea during a speech at Transport…
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