07/09/2019 – to Highways England: My complaints have been ignored. The first stage was not the subject of a consideration, the second stage was similarly ignored; there has been no…

27/03/2019: from Tim Reardon, Highways England’s General Council, emailed : In Area 9, Kier have withheld bringing new DCP claims since January this year. Those outstanding claims will be taken…

Rates that were the subject of ‘a lot of effort’ by the Authority in late 2016 and in respect of which we wrote in 2017, are finally (2019) being considered…

Highway England state none of their ASC (contracts) has a schedule of defined costs. 8/04/2019 A FoIA request @ WDTK received the reply: As none of the ASCs contain schedules of…

A month after posting their new Damage to Crown Property (DCP) rates for Third Parties (drivers, fleets, hauliers and their insurers), Highways England has already increased many! After years of…

2012 to 2019 BBMM Area 10 claims saw the contractor use CECA rates when billing Third Parties (drivers, fleets, hauliers & insurers) on claims under £10,000 but ‘mates rates’ (far…

13/06/2019 – Highways England again claims ‘post-Carney’ in response to a FoIA request, there are no DCP (damage to Crown property) rates for an ASC (contract): ‘As stated in our…

Here we go again … Highways England say one thing, their contractor does another … the tail wags the dog? 27/03/2019 – email from Highway’s England’s General Counsel ‘In Area…

As a general ‘rule of thumb’*, who pursues the bill for attendance and repair costs following a motorway incident depends upon the total cost: over £10,000, the contractor charges Highways…

26/06/2019 Highways England wrote: ‘Kier have initially agreed to temporarily hold all new claims since January 2019 and to apply the National Schedule of Repair Costs to those claims.’ Source…