Cheshire East Council has received the maximum capital funding allocation from central government for highway repairs and flood resilience across the borough.
£533,171 has been awarded to the Council (in addition to the £4.6m winter funding allocated before Christmas), which will enable the council to further increase its capital investment programme for road improvements over the next financial year.
The Department for Transport allocated this sum from the £50m pothole and flood resilience action fund being allocated to highways authorities across the country.
This funding is especially welcome at a time when the spring and summer seasons present the most suitable conditions for our highways service to carry out road surface repairs. The council’s focus will be on structural maintenance and preventative treatments. This will enable the Council to do more permanent resurfacing work where that scale of work is most needed".
Cheshire East Council is responsible for 2,700 kilometres of highway and has a continuous programme of maintenance with a £15m capital budget for 2019-20, to include improvements to carriageways, footways, bridges, structures, street lighting, safety barriers and road signs.
This investment is in addition to the specific budgets allocated to enable the extensive road-building programme the council currently has under way.
