CSS MOVES TO IMPROVE STREET LIGHT SHORTAGE

Britain is suffering from a serious shortage of street lighting columns, which means that some local authorities are finding it difficult to complete replacement programmes.

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CSS TO TAKE A LEAD TO ADDRESS STREET LIGHT SHORTAGE

We all know that dogs love lamp posts. But lamp posts, it seems, do not love dogs!

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CSS TO THROW LIGHT ON STREET LIGHTING GUIDANCE

CSS has initiated five street lighting research projects as a significant step in the development of guidance and best practice for the lighting industry and local authorities.

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NEW TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER TIER WOULD ADD BUREAUCRACY SAYS CSS

Passengers at local level would see little benefit from a proposed new bureaucratic tier in the Traffic Commissioners system, according to CSS.

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CSS WELCOMES CONSULTATION ON NEXT STEPS FOR LOCAL TRANSPORT PLANNING

The Government’s consultation on Local Transport Planning: The Next Steps which sets out the proposals for LTP progress reporting in 2008, highways capital maintenance funding distribution, and changes to the legislative basis of LTPs arising from the draft Local Transport Bill, has been broadly welcomed by CSS.

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CSS RESPONDS TO GOVERNMENT'S NEW COMPREHENSIVE SPENDING REVIEW

CSS President Richard Wills has raised concerns over aspects of the Government's last Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), citing worries over funding priority in the transport arena and tough choices on spending caused by increasing pressure on services for the elderly.

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TRANSPORT COMMITTEE RESPONDS TO CSS EVIDENCE

The House of Commons Transport Committee’s newly-published response to the Government’s draft Local Transport Bill includes several references to evidence given by CSS.

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CSS RESPONDS TO MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE DISASTER

CSS has issued an alert to its members in local authorities across the UK following the tragic collapse of a road bridge across the Mississippi in the US state of Minnesota.

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BROAD WELCOME FOR RAIL WHITE PAPER FROM CSS

The Government’s White Paper Delivering a Sustainable Railway, setting out the improvements in rail safety, reliability and capacity which it wishes to buy and the funding available to secure these improvements, has been broadly welcomed by CSS.

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CSS CALLS FOR LONG TERM THINKING ON FLOOD INFRASTRUCTURE

As Britain’s flood waters recede, CSS has come forward with a five-point plan designed to ensure that the nation’s infrastructure can better cope with future emergencies.

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CSS WELCOMES END TO UNCERTAINTY ON UNITARY BIDS

CSS has welcomed the end to uncertainty that has been achieved with the Communities and Local Government announcement that nine proposals for unitary status will now move ahead.

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CSS WELCOMES REVIEW OF SUB-NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVEOPMENT AND REGENERATION

CSS broadly welcomes the Government propoals, which it believes have the potential to ensure that money made available regionally is used to enable sub-regional areas to contribute to the UK economy more effectively.

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RICHARD WILLS BECOMES CSS PRESIDENT

Richard Wills has today (15 June 2007) taken over as President of CSS, which represents local authority strategic directors handling transport, waste management, environment, planning, energy and economic development issues.

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The ideas contained in the new waste strategy for England have received a cautious welcome from CSS. But the body representing local authority directors with front-line responsibility for tackling the huge challenges insists that the Government must now unlock the funding they need to deliver success.

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PLANNING CHANGES MUST PROTECT DEMOCRACY WARNS CSS

CSS has given a cautious welcome to much of the Government’s long-awaited Planning White Paper but warned that plans for an independent commission to determine major infrastructure projects could put basic democratic rights at risk.

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NEED TO LOOK BEYOND THE CORE CITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The Government and regional agencies have been focusing too much on eight core cities and city regions as the main drivers of England’s economy when we need to unlock the economic potential of all our areas – city and shire, urban and rural, says a new report.

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CSS CALLS FOR STRONG NERVE ON ROAD PRICING

CSS, the organisation whose members are responsible for three quarters of the UK road network, has come out in favour of road pricing as the best way to beat congestion and encourage people to switch to public transport.

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CSS CALLS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEAD ON PLACE SHAPING

Local authorities should be given a clearly defined lead role in promoting sub-regional economic prosperity and freed from the bureaucracy and partnership overload that haunt Regional Development Agencies, according to CSS.

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