The East Midlands Mayor says a Nottinghamshire councillor’s request for all of her authority’s spare money to go to the county council for road maintenance was “never going to be accepted by anyone”, says the West Bridgford Wire.

Bert Bingham, who deals with transport for Nottinghamshire County Council, said at a meeting of the East Midlands Combined Authority (EMCCA)’s transport committee in January that Nottinghamshire was subject to “underfunding” and a “lack of representation”.

It came after the county was allocated £47m by EMCCA for highways in the 2026/2027 financial year – some £35m short of the amount it is estimated the authority needs just to maintain the roads in their current state, never mind improve them.

Cllr Bingham proposed that, because of this, a figure of around £18.5m that EMCCA had yet to allocate be given to the county council to make up the shortfall.

But when asked about this, Mayor Claire Ward said the suggestion was “never going to be accepted by anyone else”.

(Picture: Paul Hutton/Highways News)