Highways Plans: See ALL planned road repairs and safety improvements across Nottinghamshire – find your area

This is the first time we are laying out a three-year plan of our highway repair work in contrast to previous annual programmes.

This change is one of the recommendations from the recent cross-party highway’s review which supported the recommendation to move to longer -term programmes to help planning and delivery along with keeping residents better informed.

Councillors also received an additional update in the committee meeting that an extra £4.7m funding allocation from the Dft has been approved to use on its Active Travel projects.

The original Government funding was provided to help local authorities as part of the work to combat the pandemic.

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The schemes are largely infrastructure projects such as cycle lanes and footways.  A further report with more details is expected in May.

Councillor Neil Clarke MBE, Chairman of the Transport and Environment committee said: “There are 381 individual road, footway and drainage schemes planned across the county full details of which can be found on the Highways Capital Programme 2018/19 | Nottinghamshire County Council.

“Local residents can expect an increase in spend on footway improvements and drainage repairs.  We are also completing our LED lighting programme with a further 12,000 streetlights being upgraded and finally additional funding of £12m over the next four years for structural patching repairs.

“The schemes in the agreed funding have been designed to reflect local and national priorities.  All County Council Members last year were asked to submit their highest priority suggestions so they could be considered for inclusion.

“The investment is also part of our strategy to support the local economy, promote health and wellbeing and ensure communities thrive.”

The 47.4m investment includes:

• 22.6m allocated to capital maintenance schemes to improve local roads and other highway assets
• £4.8m allocated to integrated transport schemes (e.g. pedestrian crossings, capacity improvements, speed management schemes) which includes £0.35m of additional County Council funding for road safety schemes; as well as allocations to fund major transport scheme business cases
• £5.4m of County Council revenue funding to deliver the traffic management revenue programme; and additional Council funding towards highway maintenance and street lighting energy savings programmes
• £14.6m of funding secured to deliver Gedling Access Road; Southwell Flood Risk Alleviation scheme; active travel programmes; and potential bus improvements through the Transforming Cities Fund.

Councillor Clarke added: “I have highlighted before this administration’s commitment to improving Nottinghamshire’s roads and this will be seen soon on the ground as residents will see our new patching teams out and about from May improving the county’s roads with a focus on right first-time repairs.

In addition to road maintenance the highways funding will go towards local transport improvements such as improving accessibility, addressing congestion, and improving road safety.  This programme of work which can also be found on the pdf document below.

One of the improvements is to help with the Future Casualty Reduction target. £50,000 of the existing capital budget will be used to deliver road treatments based on the safe system approach which means using techniques such as higher specification road surface material, upgraded lighting and additional or improved road markings.  To ensure best value for money those roads identified for major maintenance will be assessed for the ‘safe’ system.

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