The funding aims to support the council’s Highways Asset Management Strategy, mitigating the risk on the network, as part of a long term strategy in providing sustained investment. The projects address specific risks on the network as set out in the report. The projects are capital investment and as such will be allocated unique budget codes that will be used for monitoring and reporting by the corporate project management team alongside the Public Realm Contract annual plan management process
The £1m Market Towns Highways Improvements investment supports the sustained investment county-wide. The project invests in the market towns Public Realm assets supporting the economic and community facilities in the towns. This is an ongoing programme of works targeted at treating the public realm assets. The town councils and local ward members have been consulted with the proposed programme of works