Nottinghamshire will get an extra £4.5 million for repairs to its damaged roads from the new East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA).
The EMCCA met recently to discuss funding and investment into major projects across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
The committee meeting discussed how much money the area will be getting to fund road repairs following doubt about how much extra funding would be received. In December 2024, more than £75 million in government funding was announced for the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) to hand out to member councils for road repairs for the 2025/26 financial year.
The EMCCA meeting confirmed Nottinghamshire County Council will be getting £29,480,000 from the combined authority towards road maintenance for the 2025/26 financial year – around a £4.5 million increase on the council’s current road funding.
The authority has already invested £66 million in road repairs this financial year, such as resurfacing, pothole repairs and gully cleaning.
This is not the only increase in funding the county has seen for its damaged roads. The county council earlier announced on February 6 an extra £3.3 million was going to be directly funnelled into repairing the county’s roads.
The extra cash came from the council receiving more in its final settlement from government than was originally expected. EMCCA’s investment committee also read yesterday that the County Council will be receiving nearly £4 million in funding for smaller transport schemes and a share of just over £21 million for bus stop improvements from the combined authority for 2025/26.
Back in October 2023, the previous Conservative Government announced £1.5 billion in transport funding for the new EMCCA Mayor – Labour’s Claire Ward.
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