Half a million pounds of the extra cash will be used to double the budget for so-called “preventative find and fix” activity
Roads across Lancashire are to benefit from a £5.1m cash boost over the next year as part of a Government highway maintenance fund.
However, some of the money has already been reserved for schemes that cabinet member for highways and transport Rupert Swarbrick told colleagues had to be approved urgently in order to ensure that the work was done during a “hopefully…favourable summer”.Another £522,000 will be added to the £4.
County council Labour opposition group leader Azhar Ali welcomed the funding, but called on the ruling Tory party to use it to enable the adoption of a Labour proposal that was rejected at the authority’s budget-setting meeting in February to reduce the minimum depth a pothole usually has to reach before being repaired from 40mm to 20mm.
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