Telford & Wrekin invest in ‘revolutionary’ road repair technology
With nearly 3,000 pothole repairs carried out in the last year and more than £90million committed over the next four years to maintain highways, Telford & Wrekin Council is showing its determination to continually improve the condition of Borough roads. Council is deploying more crews to help and is exploring alternative methods to repair roads […]
Preparation for Stone town centre road repair scheme set to begin
Preparation and investigative work ahead of a major road maintenance scheme in Stone town centre takes place from next week. The works, including drainage, CCTV and road surface investigations, will help with design and preparation for the main structural maintenance scheme this summer. This will take place on the town centre ring road and include […]
Wiltshire Council invests in third Bobcat road repair machine
Wiltshire Council has added a third Bobcat machine to fix more potholes and repair more roads across the county, further strengthening its commitment to improving road infrastructure. Bobcats can remove large areas of damaged road surface in just minutes, which enables the teams on site to then complete the repairs, while the Bobcat moves on […]
Borrowing boost of £120m for Welsh local councils to fix roads
Local councils in Wales will soon be able to access up to £120m to repair more local roads over the next two years, under new plans set out in the Welsh Government’s Final Budget 2025-26. The new local government borrowing initiative will provide an extra £10m of revenue funding to local councils to enable them […]
The hole story: Staffordshire’s pothole focus sees more than 11,000 fixed in three months
An £8 million investment into road defect repairs in Staffordshire is seeing positive results. Since May, when the investment into Staffordshire’s roads was announced, more than 11,300 potholes have been repaired across the county. Compared to last year, the work means there has been a 19% increase in the amount of defects repaired. Added to […]