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Transport East outlines key milestones and future priorities in new Annual Report and Business Plan
Our Annual Report for 2025–26 is now available and demonstrates the value delivered for regional partners over the past year, with our Business Plan setting out strategic priorities for the year ahead. Annual Report Business Plan Rail was a big focus of the year, with key achievements including convening regional partners to shape the future of rail,…
Read MoreTransport for healthier communities – Esme Yuill
It might be because my social feed is full of videos of 80 year olds lifting heavy and ads for collagen – but staying healthy for as long as possible is starting to become a more of a motivator for me. Keeping people healthier for longer is also becoming a bigger policy focus for government.…
Read MoreRIS3 and road programme announcements
Will Quince, Chair of Transport East, has welcomed the Department for Transport’s publication of the Road Investment Strategy 3 (RIS3) and the Major Road Network and Large Local Majors Programme announcement. “The Strategic and Major Road Networks play a vital role in the East, keeping people connected and goods moving. Covering the period from 2026 to…
Read MoreGreen Book reforms could unlock investment in historically overlooked communities
The way the UK Government decides which projects get funded is changing – and it could mean fairer investment into places that have historically struggled to secure funding, including rural and coastal communities. The Treasury’s updated Green Book now recognises that while evidence and data remain important for showing value for money, they’re no longer…
Read MoreMeeting with the Mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
Our Chair Will Quince, and CEO Andrew Summers recently met Paul Bristow, Mayor of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), to learn more about CPCA’s ambitious Local Growth Plan and strengthen how our two organisations can work together to unlock opportunities to better connect Cambridgeshire & Peterborough with Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. They discussed…
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