Highway maintenance funding: Network North

• £1,000,000 Localised Deterioration Fund
• £250,000 Preservation treatment A6 James Towers Way, – M55 jct to Garstang Road jct , Preston: Programmed start date 28 May 2024
• £522,000 Major Route Network Surface Dressing
• £265,000 Hall Road, Pippin Street, Dam Wood Lane and Heatons Bridge Road. Surface Dressing, West Lancashire: Completed October 2023
• £530,000 Roundabout Inlays and preventative maintenance
• £255,000 Inlays
• £198,599 C356 Goosnargh Lane, from Melrose to Langley Lane, Preston: To be programmed
• £56,401 C700 Broadway, Helmshore Road to Lancaster Avenue, Rossendale: Completed October 2023
• £250,000 Reservoir Retaining Wall Rivington A673, Chorley: Works expected to be complete by the end of May 2024. 
• £500,000 Preventative Find and Fix
• £1,000,000 Safety Defects
• £550,000 Streel Lighting Column Replacement

Following a decision on 22/12/2023 the funding has been allocated as follows: 

• £50,054 for roundabout surfacing: A565 Southport New Road, West Lancashire (PDF 1.28 MB): Programmed June\July '24
• £836,208 for the mini resurfacing schemes, known as the Localised Deterioration Fund
• £1,900,000 for drainage improvements
• £874,738 for street lighting column replacement

Following a decision by Cabinet on 7^th March the funding has been allocated as following:

• £1,861,000 Localised Deterioration Fund
• £500,000 Drainage
• £1,000,000 Capital Lining
• £300,000 Street Lighting Column Replacement

The table below shows the total amount of capital investment on maintaining Lancashire's Highways Network since 19/20. It includes expenditure on infrastructure assets such as street lighting, traffic signals, bridges and structures in addition to maintaining the authority's roads and footways.  The table also shows how the investment was funded: i.e. using grants received from the Department for Transport  (DfT) or other funding.

Lancashire is committed to working smarter and more sustainably in maintaining our highways. We are using materials that contain recycled plastics to fit potholes and, where possible, using low carbon foam mix and in situ recycling and have trialled the use of bio binders. Trials of 'dot matrix' style printed road markings has meant less disruption the motorists and reduced risk to opeartives. Employing 'safe dig' techniques has also reduced occurrences of cable strikes. Lancashire is part of the East Ridding LiveLabs2 project and is looking at innovative ways of decarbonising the Public Real   

Lancashire County Council (LCC) will ensure that a forward plan of all resurfacing schemes is shared with Utility Companies via multiple communication channels. These channels will include but not limited to Permits (statutory s.58 Process) in Street Manager, Quarterly Co-ordination Meetings and email notifications to the Utility forward planning teams. 

It is important that LCC ensure early engagement is undertaken to prevent the need for any Utility to excavate in the newly resurfaced road(s). Legislation allows for a number exemptions, though through proactive engagement these will be minimized and be an exception. 

All works that are required within a newly resurfaced road will be rigorously challenged, even if the works fall within the exemption criteria to ensure that Highway Asset is protected at all times.