Decision details

Highway Maintenance and Pothole Repair Plan 2018/2019 - Update Report

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

The Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report informing the Sub-Committee of a £643,000 allocation to the Council from additional Department for Transport (DfT) funding for local highways maintenance work in the current Financial Year, and of the progress with the Pothole Repair Plan 2018/2019.

The report explained that the £643,000 additional funding was for ‘local highways maintenance, including the repair of potholes, to keep local bridges and structures open and safe, as well as to help aid other minor highway works that may be needed’, and was in addition to funding already awarded to the Council from the DfT Pothole Action Fund and Pothole and Flood Resilience Funding.  A table in the report set out the proposed allocation of the funding in the highway maintenance areas of: Pothole Repairs / Pothole Repair Plan 2018/2019; Major Roads Resurfacing; Minor Roads Surfacing; Footway Reconstruction and Bridges / Structures.

The report explained that as in previous years, a Pothole Repair Plan had been set up for 2018/19 to enable potholes of a lesser depth than the Council’s normal investigatory criteria to be repaired.  Potholes for inclusion in the Pothole Repair Plan 2018/19 were being identified by Neighbourhood Officers through highway inspections and/or following ad hoc reports received by the Council.  Officers had been selecting the roads from their respective inspection areas on a priority/needs basis to ensure a fair distribution of work across the Borough.  The 2018/19 Plan had commenced in October 2018 and would be continuing through to 31 March 2019; as at 14 December 2018 410 potholes had been repaired under the Plan and it was estimated that in the region of 1700 potholes would be repaired by the end of March.  The Plan was operating concurrently with the statutory highway inspection regime and delivered using existing in-house Council Highway Operative resources and equipment.

Resolved –

(1)     That the allocation of £643,000 from the additional £420 million funding for local highways maintenance work for this Financial Year, as announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Budget 2018 and confirmed in the Department for Transport correspondence dated 13 November 2018 be noted;

(2)     That the progress on the Pothole Repair Plan 2018/2019 be noted.

Publication date: 07/02/2019

Date of decision: 10/01/2019

Decided at meeting: 10/01/2019 - Traffic Management Sub-Committee

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