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Green flag for growing highway alliance
Posted on 11/12/2009
The Midlands Highway Alliance (MHA) received a double boost this week.
The Alliance has been specifically acknowledged for its innovation by the CAA (Comprehensive Area Assessment) as a significant contribution towards Leicestershire County Council’s Green Flag status.
The Green Flag status is the highest accolade and is awarded for ‘exceptional performance or innovation that others can learn from’. Leicestershire County Council has initiated and led on the MHA since its inception in 2007.
A further significant milestone for the MHA has been Milton Keynes Council signing up to the agreement.
Milton Keynes is the 14th member to join the group, which already consists of 12 local authorities plus the Highways Agency. It brings with it a strong programme of work particularly in the public realm area.
Alex Constantinides, Assistant Director forTransport at Milton Keynes Council said “We are incredibly excited to be taking advantage of the benefits the MHA can offer from sharing procurement and collaborating on best practise and purchasing services and commodities.
“We have bought into an already established and very successful framework which will be a huge benefit from an efficiency and cost standpoint.”
Matthew Lugg, Chair of the MHA said “The MHA continues to be a success story, both by helping Leicestershire in achieving the Green Flag status and by attracting new local authority members who are keen to generate more efficiencies across the public sector.”
“We are currently in discussions with several other prospective members who are also keen to share in the benefits the MHA can bring. In the current climate, partnership working is the way forward and this has been recognised by the CAA.”
For more details, contact Peter Barclay (MHA Manager) on 0116 305 5681 or visit www.leics.gov.uk/mha
Notes to editors
The MHA is a collaboration of thirteen Midlands-based councils plus the Highways Agency, who intend to improve performance and make efficiency savings in the delivery of highway services, by working together.
The MHA has 6 work streams that cover: major schemes; medium schemes; term maintenance; professional services; commodities; and the latest workstream, the development of a skills academy.
Each workstream is led by a different authority to ensure that the improvement activity is owned and embedded by local authorities themselves and that the learning and practices are sustainable.
The Midlands Highways Alliance is estimated to save the region £16.75 million across highways maintenance and improvements by 2011.
At July 2009, almost two years after the MHA’s launch, savings of £2.41 million had already been recorded