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Highways Highlights - January 2026

10/02/2026

Highways Highlights

The January edition of Highways Highlights has now been published.

The newsletter for all things highway in Essex.

In this edition:

'Green' rating for Essex underlines Essex County Council’s record on road improvement
Essex Highways cracks down on unauthorised utility works
Consultation to launch on reopening Boxted Bridge to pedestrians and cyclists

and more…

Highways Highlights - January 2026

Highways Highlights

Newsletter on all things highways, informing people about the services and improvements Essex Highways are delivering.

2026

January 2026

Cover of Highways Highlights January 2026, Text overlay of an image of a close up of a green traffic signal and text saying 'Green' rating for Essex underlines Essex County Council’s record on road improvement

2025

January 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights January 2025, Text overlay of an image of a winter gritter vehicle and text saying Essex residents name our new gritters

February 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights February 2025, Text overlay of an image of a winter gritter vehicle and text saying Essex residents name our new gritters

March 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights March 2025, Text overlay of an image of a lorry dropped into a small void and text saying Essex highways rapid response to fix Chelmsford void

April / May 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights April / May 2025, Text overlay of an image of a highway maintenance vehicle and traffic management with text overlay Highway Works, Permits - A brief guide

June 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights June 2025, Text overlay of an image of a highway with text overlay £6 million for priority highway improvements over the next two years

August 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights August 2025, Text overlay over an image of gulley sucker vehicle with text overlay 62,036 drains cleared as winter prep continues

September 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights September 2025, Text overlay of an image of two road workers taking a photograph of a road core sample with text overlay Stonger Road surface trial shows positive results three years on

October 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights October 2025, Text overlay of an image of two road workers putting up sound barriers in Brentwood High Street to minimise noise during recent works with text overlay saying Collaboration in Brentwood minimises disruption for public

Nov / Dec 2025

Cover of Highways Highlights November / December 2025, Text overlay of an image of a culvert that has been relined with text overlay saying Historic Culvert benefits from innovative engineering

2024

January 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights January 2024, Text overlay of an image of a mobile access platform vehicle and test saying Essex Highways on hand as storms henk and isha hit the county

Feb / March 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights February / March 2024, Text overlay of March Maintenance figure over an image of a gully cleansing vehicle and operative

April 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights April 2024, Text overlay of March Maintenance figure over an image of a gully cleansing vehicle and operative

May 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights May 2024, Text overlay of It's road surfacing season over an image surface dressing machine

June 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights June 2024, Text overlay of Members take the lead to help Essex Highways Repair Roads

July / August 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights July / August 2024, Text overlay of £25 million boost to help change the face of Essex’s road network

September 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights September 2024, Text overlay of HIGHWAYS INVESTMENT BOOST AS FIRST 'PRIORITY ONE' SCHEMES GET UNDERWAY

October 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights October 2024, Text overlay of NAME OUR GRITTERS

Nov / Dec 2024

Cover of Highways Highlights November and December 2024 - Whatever the weather - We respond to storm Darragh

2023

January 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights January 2023, showing information about the Member Led Pothole scheme

February 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights February 2023, with information about Why we use ‘make safe’ repairs

March 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights March 2023, with information about Why we use bus lanes and gates

April 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights April 2023, massive milestone reached as we complete 100,000th LED street light conversion

May 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights May 2023, Text overlay with the words MOVE TO SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT, with 2 cyclists as the background image.

June 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights June 2023, Text overlay with the words RideLondon Returns to Essex.

July 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights June 2023, Text overlay of an image of a JCB and engineers repairing a pothole with the words 11 of 12 additional crews now deployed.

September 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights September 2023, image of path along a stream with invvoation with added vegetation

October 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights October 2023, Text overlay of an image of a gritter and we're ready for winter

Nov / Dec 2023

Cover of Highways Highlights Novemeber / December 2023, Text overlay of an image of a road resurfacing vehicle and road surfacing? We've got it covered