Calls for new duty to co-operate amid fears roads dug up ‘over and over again’

Calls for new duty to co-operate amid fears roads dug up ‘over and over again’

Dr Ben Spencer MP called for a new ‘duty to co-operate’ in law to ease repeated disruption when utilities companies dig up roads. Utilities firms and transport authorities bring roads “to a halt” when they fail to communicate with each other, a Conservative MP has said. Dr Ben Spencer called for a new “duty to co-operate” in law, to ease repeated disruption when gas, electricity, water and broadband companies dig up roads to work on their infras…