Will Britain, FICE
President
Bringing together the ‘highways community’ to encourage and facilitate collaboration and innovation to ultimately improve road asset management.
Our mission is to make the case for local roads through collaboration, innovation, skills and net zero for the highways community and our members.
We do this by providing a unique platform for members to engage, providing a vital link between central and local government, supply chain and the wider highways community to ensure ongoing improvements in the highways sector.
LCRIG is a community interest company with a strong set of core values.
Our core values are:
Meet our team of extraordinarily talented individuals who share a passion for achieving the very best in everything they do.
Note: Board members are elected on a rotational basis. If you are interested in becoming a Board member, contact LCRIG’s Secretariat, Susanne Ingham
President
Chief Executive
Chair
Board member
Board member
Board member
Board member
Board member
Finance and Operations Director
Relationship Director
If you are interested in joining our team of dedicated individuals, striving to making a difference for the benefit of the highways community, contact us today!
Chief Executive
Finance and Operations Director
Relationship Director
Events Manager
Relationship Manager
Marketing Manager
Marketing & Events Executive
Assistant Accountant
Business Administrator
Data Management Co-ordinator
Community Interest Manager
If you are interested in joining our team of dedicated individuals, striving to making a difference for the benefit of the highways community, contact us today!
Head of Service, Highways and Traffic Management at Blackpool Council
Head of Local Highways Maintenance, Innovation, and Resilience
CEO, Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA)
Highway Network & Traffic Manager for Highways, Transport and Planning - West Sussex County Council
CEO, JAG (UK)
Performance and Reporting Manager, Cadent Gas
Chair, LCRIG and Chair, NY Highways
If you are interested in joining our team of dedicated individuals, striving to making a difference for the benefit of the highways community, contact us today!
Will established LCRIG in 2013 to encourage councils to work together to support the Department for Transport and to work with each other collaboratively in partnership with the ‘highways community’.
Will has received national recognition for his work and has received numerous awards, including the Department for Transport ‘Special Recognition Award’ for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Highways Sector’ in 2019 and Lifetime Achievement award at Highways Awards 2022.
Paula is LCRIG’s Chief Executive.
Paula has worked in local government leading frontline services, a national public sector improvement agency tasked with performance improvement, KPMG Government Advisory, international consulting assignments, political lobbying sector, and independent national government advisory roles. Paula has also worked in executive leadership roles in the charitable sector including a major stem cell cancer charity leading their operations department and a strategic policy and lobbying role in a leading environmental charity focused on behaviour change to improve local environmental quality. Latterly she has been involved with PIARC, World Roads Association technical committee on accessibility and mobility in rural areas.
Paula’s passion for technology, data, and public services means that she has spoken on more than one occasion on BBC Radio4’s programme “In Business” about technology and Infrastructure. Paula has authored articles about infrastructure, data, and its social impact for the Institute of Highway Engineers. In 2019, Paula gave evidence directly to the Transport Select Committee on Local Roads Funding and Governance. Paula is also a member of the Royal Meteorology Society, with a strong personal interest in extreme weather, climate change, and other weather phenomena.
Martin has almost 40 years’ experience in the highways sector having started his career with local government in the early 80’s. Over the past 20 years he has held a number of high profile roles in the private sector which include that of a Partner in a global design consultancy, a Director in Kier Highways and more recently as a joint owner of his own consultancy D2M2.
Throughout his career Martin has played a significant role in the highways sector having held advisory positions with CIHT, ACE, HMEP and with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He has spoken at numerous national conferences and authored several industry guidance documents on the subjects of procurement, funding strategies, performance management and collaboration. He remains influential in helping to shape future highways delivery models by ensuring SMEs have the opportunity to access public sector contracts.
Darren Capes FIET FIHE is Intelligent Transport Systems Policy Lead at the Department for Transport and focuses on the adoption of emerging vehicle, infrastructure and data technologies by the UK’s highway authorities. Darren has over 30 years’ experience working in Local and Central Government. A qualified civil engineer, his current role involves leading ITS policy at the Department for Transport and focusses on supporting local authorities in engaging with the Future of Transport agenda and ensuring the UK’s road authorities are prepared for the challenges to come.
Darren has a particular interest in emerging transport technologies and the readiness of local highway authorities. He is a Fellow of both the IHE and IET, manages the UK’s Transport Technology Forum on behalf of the DfT and is a member of the ITS World Congress Programme Committee. As well as sitting on the Board of LCRIG, Darren is chair the IET’s National Transport Policy Panel, is a board member of ITS(UK) and Junior Vice President of the IHE.
Sean is the Head of Service – Highway Maintenance at Oxfordshire County Council, having previously been employed as the Head of Highways and Transportation for a number of other councils.
Sean is particularly passionate about bringing members of the highways sector together to share skills and knowledge for the benefit of everyone.
Dwayne is Assistant Director Highways and Engineering at Bolton Council and has extensive experience within in local government gained from undertaking a series of progressively demanding roles.
Representing ‘People’ on our board Dwayne is responsible to provide oversight and report upon building a support framework of people around LCRIG and for developing the entry into the sector for internships, traineeships and apprenticeships. He is particularly passionate about promoting careers within the highways sector, creating opportunities for all, personal development and creating routes into the industry via local government.
Carol is an experienced local government manager working for Kent County Council, with a background in change management, diversity, economic development, and highways.
Carol is currently the Highways Project Manager on an exciting innovation project, Live Labs, in partnership with Amey plc and funded by the Department for Transport and ADEPT. The two-year Live Labs project, started in summer 2019, is part of ADEPT’s SMART Places programme to support the use of digital technology in place-based services. In this role Carol is leading on a wide range of innovation trials in highways service delivery including the development of an insight’s digital platform, materials testing graphene in asphalt and the deployment of sensor and drone technology. The project is also developing an improved digital customer service platform utilizing the outputs from the operational platform.
Paul is the Highways Asset Manager for Lancashire County Council, having worked in a range of different roles within Lancashire’s highways services for the last 30 years.
He is the Chair for the NW LCRIG group. The ethos of the group is to share good practice, learn from each other, consider innovation and work together across the North West to deliver data driven asset management practices.
Kerry is Finance and Operations Director and oversees all business operations for LCRIG, including managing accounts and statutory requirements as a Community Interest Company. Kerry is also responsible for analysing and interpreting LCRIG’s financial performance data.
A CIMA qualified, commercially focused, Finance & Operations Director, Kerry is adept at producing robust financial and commercial information designed to drive decision making at Board level.
Kerry has an excellent knowledge and understanding of the highways industry and the challenges faced on the UK road network.
Susanne is LCRIG’s Relationship Director and has worked within the civil engineering, highways and transportation sector for over 25 years.
Susanne’s extensive network of contacts and broad range of experience serves her perfectly to facilitate LCRIG’s aim to create a fully inclusive ‘highways community’.
Paula is LCRIG’s Chief Executive.
Paula has worked in local government leading frontline services, a national public sector improvement agency tasked with performance improvement, KPMG Government Advisory, international consulting assignments, political lobbying sector, and independent national government advisory roles. Paula has also worked in executive leadership roles in the charitable sector including a major stem cell cancer charity leading their operations department and a strategic policy and lobbying role in a leading environmental charity focused on behaviour change to improve local environmental quality. Latterly she has been involved with PIARC, World Roads Association technical committee on accessibility and mobility in rural areas.
Paula’s passion for technology, data, and public services means that she has spoken on more than one occasion on BBC Radio4’s programme “In Business” about technology and Infrastructure. Paula has authored articles about infrastructure, data, and its social impact for the Institute of Highways Engineers. In 2019, Paula gave evidence directly to the Transport Select Committee on Local Roads Funding and Governance. Paula is also a member of the Royal Meteorology Society, with a strong personal interest in extreme weather, climate change, and other weather phenomena.
Kerry is Finance and Operations Director and oversees all business operations for LCRIG, including managing accounts and statutory requirements as a Community Interest Company. Kerry is also responsible for analysing and interpreting LCRIG’s financial performance data.
A CIMA qualified, commercially focused, Finance & Operations Director, Kerry is adept at producing robust financial and commercial information designed to drive decision making at Board level.
Kerry has an excellent knowledge and understanding of the highways industry and the challenges faced on the UK road network.
Susanne is LCRIG’s Secretariat and has worked within the civil engineering, highways and transportation sector for over 25 years.
Susanne’s extensive network of contacts and broad range of experience serves her perfectly to facilitate LCRIG’s aim to create a fully inclusive ‘highways community’.
Charlotte manages LCRIG’s events and webinars.
Charlotte has worked within the civil engineering, highways and transportation sector for over 14 years.
Keely is LCRIG’s Relationship Manager and she is responsible for onboarding and supporting members.
Keely has experience in customer service and account management which she gained from working in the rail sector.
Shelley is LCRIG’s Marketing Manager and responsible for all marketing and communications.
Shelley has worked in the civil engineering, highways and transportation sector for over 15 years and has a Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Level 6 Diploma in Professional Digital Marketing.
Emily is LCRIG’s Marketing & Events Executive.
Emily has a Level 3 Digital Marketing qualification.
Adam is LCRIG’s Assistant Accountant, supporting the Finance and Operations Director.
Adam completed an Agricultural Science Degree at the University of Nottingham and has now enrolled on a Finance qualification.
Claire is LCRIG’s Business Administrator.
Claire previously worked as an administrator within the fire and security sector, and has over 20 years of admin experience, within a variety of different industries.
Karla has worked for LCRIG as an Administrator, on a part time basis since July 2021 and has played a key role in establishing and developing the LCRIG internal systems.
Karla works part-time for LCRIG and is studying Marine Biology at Glasgow University.
Georgia is responsible for managing the LCRIG community interest projects and the fund-raising activities for our local and national charitable work.
Georgia has worked within the civil engineering, highways and transportation sector for almost 8 years part-time whilst studying for her BTEC Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care and her LLB Law (Hons) Degree which she completed in April 2019.
Fellow of the Institute of Highway Engineers, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation, Chartered Manager Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management. Chair of the LCRIG Infrastructure Innovation Board, Vice Chair North West Joint Authorities Group.
Ian is a highly accomplished Senior Officer with 34 years in Local Government service. He has a consistently successful record of leading high-performance teams in the management and delivery of highway maintenance schemes, capital schemes and utility works, ensuring all activities comply with required legislation and contractual schedules, quality and technical specifications.
Demonstrating a robust ground-up expertise and a consistent professional approach, he has strong project management skills, comprehensive technical and legal knowledge, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ian has management responsibility for internal and external projects, scrutinising quality, identifying potential problems, and providing commercially sound solutions.
He leads innovation and progression in terms of the Authorities approach to highway maintenance, asset management and its engagement with suppliers and external stakeholders, is a keen advocate of innovation and new ideas, in particular fostering a collaborative approach across the Highway Community always pushing to achieve more, to gain best value from the Authorities own resources and the use of external resources and suppliers.
He has an active and full role in LCRIG and is Chair of the Infrastructure Innovation Board, hugely supportive of the work and the ethos, as part of the team he actively seeks out new ideas and innovation, welcomes challenge and is passionate about supporting the Highways Community and promoting new thinking and or a new approach to existing and future challenges.
Working together and approaching things collaboratively, will see the benefits needed to inform the decision making process, to keep abreast of current and future key factors such as sustainability, environmental impact, disruption and cost to give real value to the choices we make in terms of Highway treatments.
Ian see’s this approach as an absolute ‘must do’ for the future.
Matt is the Head of Local Roads and Resilience at the Department for Transport. He is the Government’s lead on the Live Labs programme; working with external stakeholders including local highway authorities, academia, and the private sector organisations on delivering innovative solutions to highways infrastructure construction and maintenance.
Matt is an experienced transport policy professional, having previously worked for the UK’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV). He helped design and implement policy changes needed to ensure the safe deployment of CAV technology in the UK aligned to the UK’s Industrial Strategy, most notably the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act. He has also worked for successive Transport Ministers as a Private Secretary, advising UK Government Ministers on complex transport policy areas.
Paul is Chief Executive at the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) and prior to this had over 30 years’ experience within local authority highways, both directly with local authorities and with Tier 1 provider Amey. From 2005 to 2020, he was Highway Asset Manager looking after strategic, tactical and operational highway asset management in Staffordshire. He joined Amey in 2014 as part of the Staffordshire County Council / Amey Infrastructure+ Strategic Highway Partnership where he also managed teams responsible for the design of structural, preventative and structures schemes within the Partnership.
Talking about his hopes for the board, he commented: “My hope is that authorities will have confidence in the LCRIG Infrastructure Innovation Board to see products and processes have been objectively assessed and when successfully trialled in one or two authorities, they will embrace them and make them a part of their efficient and effective highway asset management. It will benefit authorities by allowing them to reap the benefits of using innovative products and processes earlier and improve their management of the highway network for the benefit of all their stakeholders.”
Jeff has extensive experience from across the highways function including working as a civil engineer on road and bridge schemes and more recently local government highways and transport teams up to head of service. He has specialised in street works as it offered him greater interest and opportunity with the added benefit of constant evolution of tasks, methods, and relationships to explore.
Talking about his role on the board, he said: “I see my participation in the Infrastructure Innovation Board as an opportunity to grow my knowledge and to offer direct influence in the field of innovative highway materials use and repair technologies. I will also look to use my position within the street works community to promote and encourage the early uptake of these innovations across utility works promoters and local government authorities alike.”
David has undertaken various roles within the UK street works industry since 1987 in both the private and public sector and has played a central role locally, regionally and nationally as the legislation changed from PUSWA to NRSWA and now the TMA. This has included the development of National Policy and Legislation, the development of Electronic Transfer of Data and the delivery of training nationally.
He undertook the role of JAG(UK) Manager in 2009 JAG(UK) Manager and became CEO of JAG(UK) in April 2020. JAG(UK) provides strategic direction to authorities in terms of their approach to street and roads works.
Talking about the role of the board, David said: “LCRIG provides the perfect platform to deliver change through innovation and I am particularly looking forward to being part of the board. Changes to delivery models, materials and technology are all necessary to meet the challenges of climate change. The Covid 19 pandemic has also highlighted resilience issues which can be mitigated by innovation. In essence we need to seize the moment.”
Paul Carter is Performance and Reporting Manager at at Cadent Gas.
Martin has almost 40 years’ experience in the highways sector having started his career with local government in the early 80’s. Over the past 20 years he has held a number of high-profile roles in the private sector which include that of a Partner in a global design consultancy, a Director in Kier Highways and more recently as a joint owner of his own consultancy D2M2.
Throughout his career Martin has played a significant role in the highways sector having held advisory positions with CIHT, ACE, HMEP and with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He has spoken at numerous national conferences and authored several industry guidance documents on the subjects of procurement, funding strategies, performance management and collaboration. He remains influential in helping to shape future highways delivery models by ensuring SMEs have the opportunity to access public sector contracts.
LCRIG’s President, Will Britain established the group in 2013 to encourage councils to work together and with the ‘highways community’ to support the Department for Transport to deliver innovation on a national level.
Will’s initial vision was to elevate the status of highways in order to empower Elected Members with the information needed to decide the future of the road network for the next generation.
LCHIG is renamed the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG).
LCRIG’s inaugural national conference, ‘Strictly Highways’ is attended by over 70 local councils. LCRIG then holds further technical training days which are also taken up by many councils.
Second Strictly Highways conference takes place, with over 300 delegates, including representation from the DfT, councils and key organisations.
LCRIG launches weekly e-newsletter, the LCRIG Insight. 2020 also sees the introduction of LCRIG-hosted and LCRIG-led webinars.
LCRIG becomes a registered CIC and the first organisation of it’s type in the world to achieve ISO 44001 certification. DfT appoints LCRIG as Secretariat of the Transport Technology Forum (TTF). First virtual Strictly Highways event receives record levels of engagement. LCRIG/Steve Berry Think Exceptional £150,000 Innovation Fund launches.
Project Amber Inaugural Collaboration meeting takes place with over 100 delegates in attendance and LCRIG delivers inaugural Innovation Festival with over 450 delegates and more than 60 different local highway authorities attending over two days. LCRIG Skills training platform launches.
Fast forward to today and LCRIG has over 100 council members and engaging with all non-members. Over 180 other member organisations. Working in collaboration with DfT, Welsh Government, CIHT, IHE, LGTAG, RSMA, RSTA, JUG, JAG, HAUC, ADEPT, Amey Staffordshire.
The Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) is officially established as a Community Interest Company (CIC).
This means that the organisation can operate like any other limited company and can procure goods and services, lease offices and apply for government funding.
LCRIG also gives back to the community through charitable donations and reinvests back into the highways sector by enabling local government members to benefit from fully-funded services including events, recruitment and much more.
The Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG) provides Members with a unique platform to engage with councils, the DfT and the wider highways community.
By joining LCRIG, you will connect with a group of like-minded councils, organisations and individuals, all of whom are driving change through innovation and technological advances across the local roads network.