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Structural Maintenance Additional Works 

The additional works include:

• carriageway resurfacing
• footway reconstruction
• drainage renewals 

Additional Carriageway Resurfacing È«¹ú̽»¨

We are committed to working in a more sustainable way and embracing new innovative materials, plant and systems wherever possible.

We are one of the highest users of warm mix asphalts, using this on the majority of our surfacing sites. We work with our maintenance contractor and material provider to transport the old road surface back to the batching quarry where it is crushed, screened and blended into the asphalt mixes we reuse within the county.  

We use our contractor’s recycling depot to produce our own low carbon foambase and Type 1 stone by recycling materials  brought in from county construction sites. We use the majority of these products in our carriageway and footway schemes. Our surface dressing chipping sweepings are screened and washed for reuse. All surface dressing sites use walking floor lorries to remove any risk of tipping incidents. 

We will share our plan of our resurfacing schedule with Utility companies through a national system called Streetmanager, our website, One Network and our quarterly Co-ordination meetings. This will also include the S58 process which we are required to follow.

It is important that we engage with public and private companies and contractors who may need to carry out work on our roads to prevent newly resurfaced roads being worked on. There are some exceptions where we must allow work to continue on a newly surfaced road, but with early engagement these will be kept to a minimum

If an exception is applied and work is undertaken on a newly resurfaced road, we will carry out inspections to ensure that the road surface is returned to the same standard of a new road surface  

The table below shows the total amount of capital investment spent on maintaining our Highways Network since 2019/20. It includes all structural maintenance expenditure on infrastructure assets such as street lighting, traffic signals, bridges and structures in addition to maintaining the authority's carriageways and footways.