Interview with Richard Wakelen, the CEO of the National Joint Utilities Group on utility coordination.

Less than 25 per cent of utilities believe permit schemes for streetworks will achieve their aim of reducing congestion.

NJUG invites entries for its first awards for good practice in the streetworks industry.

Digging deep: plans for a permitting scheme for utility streetworks in London have been delayed, after the Department for Transport asked Transport for London and the city's boroughs to rework it.

Utility companies have welcomed the DfT’s request for more information fromTransport for London and 14 boroughs about their proposed permit schemes for utility works in the capital.

The Government has questioned whether the London permit scheme for increasing control over street and road works ‘is likely to deliver worthwhile benefits’.

Tony Glover is the new communications director at the National Joint Utilities Group.

Utilities and local authorities faced chaos when a notice regime required under the Traffic Management Act went live on 1st April.

Implementation of the Traffic Management Act's network management section this week caused 'confusion and complication' because of software failure and a lack of time to properly prepare, say utility companies.

Claims that utility works cut the serviceable life of roads by a third were rejected by the National Joint Utilities Group (NJUG) this week.

Can the Traffic Management Act work for the benifit of everyone? Richard Wakelen hopes so, but only if applied with parity.

Can sustainability improve the public perception of street and highway works?

Members of the National Joint Utilities Group carry out reinstatements to the road surface to the required standards. "If our members do fall short then Highways Authorities rightly hold them directly responsible and ensure the utility companies return to correct the problem," said Richard Wakelen, chief executive.

Utility companies were fined more than £3million for over-running on roadworks in London last year and causing gridlock across the capital.

Tony Cox has recently accepted the role of the National Joint Utilities Group Public Affairs Director,

Phone and utility companies have been paying councils an increasing amount of fines for failing to complete roadworks on time, an investigation by The Times has found.

The National Joint Utilities Group has called for a "level playing field" in the implementation of the Traffic Management Act

The National Joint Utilities Group has reintroduced its guidelines for digging up and replacing road surfaces, in the face of popular demand. 

Utilities are facing charges for overrunning work once more, after ministers accepted the need to tackle disruption which officials consider costs the economy atleast £5bn. 

Utilities are seeking urgent clarification from the Department for Transport about whether they will be fined for noticing arrangements under the Traffic Management Act from next April.

Richard Wakelen, CEO, National Joint Utilities Group, featured in Names and Faces. 

The National Joint Utility Group comments on New Highway Scheme Proposal.

NJUG’s response to Scotland's new roadworks commissioner proposing lane rentals to speed up utility and other local roadworks.

Latest National Joint Utilities Group policy dictates that local authorities and their partners work in close co-operation for the common good. Richard Wakelen reports.

Richard Wakelen, chief executive of the National Joint Utilities Group - the UK's trade association representing utilities involved in street works - is questioning the robustness of the Department of Transport's Regulatory impact assessment report on new permits schemes for utilities undertaking street works.

Richard Wakelen's letter to the editor, Surveyor magazine, in response to Chris Tunstall's viewpoint article.

The Department for Transport has published a new Highway Authorities and Utilities Committee (HAUC) 'Good Practice Guide' for managing works in the street.

NJUG welcomes the launch of Highway Authorities and Utilities Committee's best practice guide. The guide promotes NJUG's newly launched Vision for Street Works.

NJUG's chief executive Richard Wakelen outlines the organisation's new 'Vision for Street Works'

The National Joint Utilities Group has promised imporvements in performance so that street works in the UK are 'world class'. 

The National Joint Utilities Group has promised improvements in performance so that street works in the UK are ‘world class’.

The National Joint Utility Group (NJUG), the UK trade association representing utilities in street works, has launched a ‘Vision for street works’.

Safety, sensitivity, service and sustainability for street works.

The National Joint Utilities Group (NJUG) launches "vision for streetworks".

Location of underground services. By Les Guest, CEO of the National Joint Utilities Group Ltd