Theme: National Infrastructure Assessment
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West Yorkshire leaders engage on region’s infrastructure goals
Yesterday (5 July) saw Commissioners up in Leeds for our third regional visit of the summer, meeting West Yorkshire leaders and businesses to better understand the city region’s infrastructure priorities. After a one-to-one meeting, Sir John Armitt and West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin co-hosted a roundtable with representatives from the combined authority, Leeds City Council,...
Commission hears from West Midlands on region’s infrastructure priorities
What West Midlands needs to build a thriving regional economy – and the role infrastructure can play in helping achieve that goal – was on the agenda for the Commission’s regional visit to Birmingham last week, the second in a series of six visits to cities and city regions around the country designed to help...
Getting cities moving
An interim report for the second National Infrastructure Assessment says cities will need to pursue adaptive transport solutions in response to the uncertainties around transport demand resulting from the recent pandemic.
Getting cities moving past “Covid fog” critical for success of levelling up
Enabling people to make more trips in and around our major cities is a challenge that city leaders and national government must tackle head on by making urban transport networks work better – within carbon constraints – if they are to achieve levelling up, according to a new report from the National Infrastructure Commission. The...
Government’s next steps on freight: welcome ambition, detailed plans now needed
This week the government published its long-term plan for the freight sector, Future of Freight. Government committed to publishing this in its response to the Commission’s 2019 study, Better Delivery: The challenge for freight. The Commission’s main conclusion in that study was that through the adoption of new technologies and the recognition of freight’s needs...
First stop Manchester for national infrastructure advisers’ fact finding tour
Ensuring Greater Manchester has the infrastructure in place to meet the needs of the year 2050 will be on the agenda as the government’s official advisers on infrastructure policy kick off a national tour with a visit to the region today (Monday 13 June). Maximising the opportunities provided by HS2, the importance of further investment...
Review – responses to the Baseline Report Call for Evidence
A report by Arup for the Commission, analysing the themes raised by stakeholders in response to the 17 questions asked in the Baseline Report for the second National Infrastructure Assessment.
James Heath: Reaching out to inform the next Assessment
There is a quote from Einstein that is, I think, very relevant to the world of public policy. He reportedly said: “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer”. While I might disagree with the smart bit (!), Einstein’s observation about the value of having time and space to...
Second National Infrastructure Assessment Baseline Report – call for evidence submissions
Submissions received in response to 17 questions asked in the second National Infrastructure Assessment Baseline Report call for evidence, which ran from November 2021 to February 2022.
Quality of life
This discussion paper sets out the Commission's strategic position on the quality of life objective in its remit.
Managing uncertainty in the second National Infrastructure Assessment
This paper considers how infrastructure policymaking can best deal with an uncertain future.
James Heath’s speech to Utility Week Live: climate adaptation and resilience
The Commission’s Chief Executive, James Heath, today (17 May 2022) gave a keynote address at Utility Week Live on climate adaptation and resilience. The session, held at the Birmingham NEC, explored utilities’ approaches to adaptation planning and how they are seeking to build resilience to respond to the impacts of climate change already present, as...
Adverse weather scenarios for future electricity systems: project overview
A page that brings together all the research from this joint project with the Met Office and the Committee on Climate Change
NIA2 Baseline Charts
Data from the Baseline Report providing an overview of the current performance of the infrastructure sectors within the Commission's remit
Infrastructure Progress Review 2022
Our annual assessment of the government's progress on implementing its commitments on infrastructure.