HAawards more "super-agencies"

Two new "super agency" contracts to manage the maintenance and improvement of 1,000 miles of trunk roads and motorways in East Anglia and parts of central England have been awarded by the Highways Agency.

Owen Williams Consultants has been awarded the commission for Area 6, which covers Norfolk, Suffolk, and parts of Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.

Thorburn Colquhoun of Bedford will cover Area 8, which includes most of Bedfordshire and parts of Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

The awards are part of an overall plan to reduce the number of highway maintenance agencies from 82 to 24. Four of the new areas have now been awarded.