Lancashire County Council is investing millions into the highways network across the county. But more money is going to be needed.
At least an extra £23m a year would have to be spent on the pre-planned maintenance of Lancashire’s roads in order to improve the overall condition of the local highway network, it has been estimated.
The cabinet report also noted that the county council would now need between £41.7m and £45.2m just to manage the highways “within a reasonable level of risk” – although it added that the £28.1m from the DfT, when funnelled through County Hall’s mechanism for prioritising roads requiring maintenance, would still help “overall risk” to be controlled.
“I hold my hands up and say I don’t have enough time to go and do that. I will come and look at other stuff where it’s appropriate and I’m not making myself inaccessible, [but] what I’m not setting myself [up to do] is to make promises in the field that I can’t deliver,” County Cllr Swarbrick explained.
The TAMP is based on the principle of ensuring preventive maintenance is prioritised rather than taking a ‘worst road first’ approach. The programme is being delivered in phases through until 2030. It initially focussed on the county’s A, B and C routes and has now, in its second phase, turned its attention to unclassified roads, like those in residential areas.
Highways authorities like the county council have a duty to maintain the road network in such a way that it remains “reasonably passable for the ordinary traffic of the neighbourhood [in] all seasons of the year, without danger caused by its physical condition”.
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