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The combined increases take County Hall’s highways maintenance budget close to the £51.2m minimum that the authority has previously said it would need in order to manage all of its highways assets to a “sustainable” level. However, as the funding boosts are both one-offs, that goal is likely to be within reach for one year only.
“When we had a Labour administration, the Conservative government identified Lancashire as being in the top three for fixing potholes – how far we have fallen since then,” County Cllr Fillis added. A quarter of the additional funding announced this week will be withheld until local authorities can prove that they are meeting various government criteria for how they operate, which will be shared with them in the coming weeks.
Paula Burdess, cabinet member for community safety, street scene and neighbourhoods at Blackpool Council, said she was “delighted” by an increase which she claimed would bring more benefits than just less bumpy journeys.
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