North Yorkshire County Council secures £29.7 million for road repairs

North Yorkshire County Council has been allocated £29.65 million from the government to maintain the 9000km of road in North Yorkshire.

The funding, which is £9 million more than it was allocated last year, is still a long way off the estimated £60 million per year needed to maintain the county’s roads.

The estimated maintenance backlog to get all roads in North Yorkshire to a good standard is approximately £322 million.

Earlier this year, the county council announced a major programme of highway work to repair the ravages of harsh winters on its highways network – one of the longest in England.

County councillor Gareth Dadd, North Yorkshire’s executive member for highways said: “Over the last eighteen months we have been lobbying central Government about the maintenance crisis facing the county’s roads

“This year we have been very successful in attracting additional funding for North Yorkshire and I would like to believe that our lobbying has helped influence Government thinking on this national increase in maintenance funding.”

“We hope to have a total of around £38 million available next year to repair the roads. Our priority up until now has been to concentrate on the busier A and B roads so these are now in quite a good condition. But this has had an impact on the quieter roads and about one quarter of these (or over 1200km) now require maintenance.”

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