{"id":146272,"date":"2024-11-28T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=146272"},"modified":"2024-11-28T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T12:10:51","slug":"national-highways-could-drive-housing-delivery-say-lichfields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/national-highways-could-drive-housing-delivery-say-lichfields\/146272\/","title":{"rendered":"National Highways could drive housing delivery, say Lichfields"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A new report by Lichfields\u00a0titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/lichfields.uk\/content\/insights\/the-road-ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Road Ahead: The Future Role of National Highways in Economic Growth and Housing Delivery<\/a>, <\/em>explores how National Highways can align with government policies<\/h2>\n<p>According to the report, policies that National Highways could help with include the New Towns programme and the \u2018modern economy\u2019 agenda.<\/p>\n<h3>National Highways could support regional growth<\/h3>\n<p>The report states that, with the changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), National Highways can play a wider role in supporting growth through co-operation with local authorities, developers, and government bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Co-operation could yield results in facilitating infrastructure investments and supporting high-growth sectors, including logistics, advanced manufacturing, and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The company has previously participated in the Growth and Housing Fund, facilitating quality developments that were dependent on Strategic Road Network (SRN) access.<\/p>\n<p>More regional devolution deals are soon to be proposed, Lichfields analysis says that National Highways could be crucial in working in similar programmes.<\/p>\n<p>As well as housing, collaboration could be crucial to logistics, manufacturing, and renewable energy. SRN is a business factor of fundamental importance for these industries, and can benefit from infrastructure investments and better management of existing networks. The company has a real opportunity to stimulate productivity levels, add economic value, build communities for the future, says the report.<\/p>\n<h3>National Highways can \u201cbe a key enabler of the UK\u2019s economic and place-focused ambitions\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Richard Coburn, Senior Director at Lichfields, said: \u201cBy making its remit more explicitly focused on growth on top of its existing Licence responsibilities, National Highways can adapt to ensure it joins the top-table to be a key enabler of the UK\u2019s economic and place-focused ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach would allow National Highways to work proactively to accelerate housing delivery and commercial developments, alongside stakeholders across the country, aligned with the government\u2019s \u2018Get Britain Moving\u2019 agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy empowering National Highways with a more expansive mandate and organising itself accordingly, the company should become a core growth partner. This will put it on par with other major infrastructure bodies to ensure better vision-led transport solutions to support the delivery of well-connected, sustainable New Towns and clusters of modern industries targeted in the Government\u2019s emerging Industrial Strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>National Highways investing in data-based approaches<\/h3>\n<p>The company has been working in conjunction with Amey to develop the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/amey-reappointed-delivery-partner-national-highways-digital-lab\/136226\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Lab<\/a>, researching the use of data-based approaches for workflows.<\/p>\n<p>Data-based approaches are increasing in popularity for construction approaches, with the Scottish government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/data-supported-placemaking-proven-effective-in-scottish-government-report\/146260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently publishing a report<\/a> detailing how using data in innovative ways can enhance place-making decisions, working in Glasgow and other major regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, National Highways also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/national-highways-geospatial-technology\/135022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adopted geospatial technology<\/a> for quicker responses on the road network through real-time views.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Davin Crowley-Sweet, chief data officer at National Highways, said: \u201cOur vision for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/digging-deep-into-digital-transformation-highways-uk\/145727\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital<\/a> roads of the future will incorporate new capabilities, such as digital twins, predictive planning, single view of assets and connected autonomous vehicles. Each of these initiatives will require a common, trusted representation of the network to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s stated future vision could complement Lichfields&#8217; proposed collaboration and alignment with government housing and industrial policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lichfields have published a report into how National Highways is well positioned to help drive housing delivery in the UK, in line with new government goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":146273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[572,806],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-housebuilding","9":"tag-road-improvements"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Highways could drive housing delivery, say Lichfields<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lichfields has published a report into how National Highways is well positioned to help drive housing delivery in line with new government goals\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/national-highways-could-drive-housing-delivery-say-lichfields\/146272\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Highways could drive housing delivery, say Lichfields\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lichfields have published a report into how National Highways is well positioned to help drive housing delivery in the UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/national-highways-could-drive-housing-delivery-say-lichfields\/146272\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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