Highway maintenance funding: Network North
On 4 October 2023, the government announced £8.3 billion of additional highways maintenance funding over the period 2023 to 2033 for local road resurfacing and wider maintenance activity on the local highway network across the county, on top of the additional £5.122m made available in the Spring Budget 2023.
From this extra funding, Lancashire was awarded £3.661m for 2023/24 and £3.661m for 2024/25. Find out how this money is being spent in your area.
- £1,000,000 Localised Deterioration Fund
- £250,000 Preservation treatment A6 James Towers Way, – M55 jct to Garstang Road jct , Preston: Completed 1st June 2024
- £522,000 Major Route Network Surface Dressing – Completed July 2023
- £265,000 Hall Road, Pippin Street, Dam Wood Lane and Heatons Bridge Road. Surface Dressing, West Lancashire: Completed October 2023
- £530,000 Roundabout Inlays and preventative maintenance
- £255,000 Inlays
- £198,599 C356 Goosnargh Lane, from Melrose to Langley Lane, Preston: To be programmed
- £56,401 C700 Broadway, Helmshore Road to Lancaster Avenue, Rossendale: Completed October 2023
- £250,000 Reservoir Retaining Wall Rivington A673, Chorley: Works expected to be complete by the end of May 2024.
- £500,000 Preventative Find and Fix
- £1,000,000 Safety Defects
- £550,000 Streel Lighting Column Replacement
Following a decision on 22/12/2023 the funding has been allocated as follows:
- £50,054 for roundabout surfacing: A565 Southport New Road, West Lancashire (PDF 1.28 MB): To be programmed
- £836,208 for the mini resurfacing schemes, known as the Localised Deterioration Fund
- £1,900,000 for drainage improvements
- £874,738 for street lighting column replacement
Following a decision on 22/12/2023 the funding has been allocated as follows:
- £50,054 for roundabout surfacing: A565 Southport New Road, West Lancashire (PDF 1.28 MB): Programmed June\July '24
- £836,208 for the mini resurfacing schemes, known as the Localised Deterioration Fund
- £1,900,000 for drainage improvements
- £874,738 for street lighting column replacement
Fylde
Scheme: Willows Avenue, Lytham Division
Details: Full length of Willows Avenue, Resurfacing
Progress: Completed – 21st May 2024
Lancaster
Scheme: Banks Crescent and Alan Grove, Heysham Division
Details: Full Length, Resurfacing
Progress: Completed 14th May 2024
South Ribble
Scheme: Wateringpool Lane, Lostock Hall and Bamber Bridge Division
Details: Central Park Road South to St Cuthberts Road, Resurfacing
Progress: Completed - 25 April 2024
Following a decision by Cabinet on 7th March the funding has been allocated as following:
- £1,861,000 Localised Deterioration Fund
- £500,000 Drainage
- £1,000,000 Capital Lining
- £300,000 Street Lighting Column Replacement
| Road number | Roadname | Description | District | Total Estimate | Programmed start date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C124 | Mickering Lane | Prescot Road west to property The Orchard | West Lancashire | £68,350 | Completed 27/07/2024 |
| U7534 | Schofield Road | Full length | Rossendale | £110,896 | Completed 19/07/2024 |
| U7582 | Hollin Lane | Burnley Road To Hollin Way | Rossendale | £89,505 | Completed 23/08/2024 |
| U4802 | Stubbins Street | Bolton Road North to Stubbins St inc section under bridge | Rossendale | £95,004 | Completed 18/08/2024 |
| A577 | Grove Road | Dingle Road to Lafford lane | West Lancashire | £77,623 | Completed 25/09/2024 |
| U40325 | Bent Lane | Full length | Pendle | £185,248 | Completed 30/09/2024 |
| U1004 | Delph lane | Full Length | West Lancashire | £214,766 | Completed 30/07/2024 |
| U11698 | Oxford Street | Blackburn Road to Hyndburn Road | Hyndburn | £89,223 | Completed 26/09/2024 |
| C440 | Bells Bridge Lane | Canal bridge to Ford Green House entrance | Wyre | £47,386 | Completed 17/07/2024 |
| C516 | Lowgill Lane | From bridge over Crossdale Beck west for 74m | Lancaster | £50,558 | Completed 12/08/2024 |
| U7719 | Heightside Avenue | Rear of 2 - 22 Heightside Ave, Newchurch, Rawtenstall | Rossendale | £50,323 | Completed 30/08/2024 |
| U18358 | Derwent Road | Quernmore Road to Borrowdale Road | Lancaster | £141,587 | 19/10/2024 |
| U7919 | Tong Lane | South Street to fair View Crescent/ Pennine Road | Rossendale | £284,996 | TBC |
| U22670 | Grange View | full length | Lancaster | £138,387 | Completed 28/08/2024 |
| C350 | Inglewhite Road | Sainsburys and the Alston Hall pub | Ribble Valley | £112,847 | Completed 22/09/2024 |
The table below shows the total amount of capital investment on maintaining Lancashire's Highways Network since 19/20. It includes expenditure on infrastructure assets such as street lighting, traffic signals, bridges and structures in addition to maintaining the authority's roads and footways. The table also shows how the investment was funded: i.e. using grants received from the Department for Transport (DfT) or other funding.
| Delivery plan * 24/25 £m |
Forecast outturn 23/24 £m |
Actual outturn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22/23 £m |
21/22 £m |
20/21 £m |
19/20 £m |
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| Highways capital maintenance | 51.129 | 44.800 | 42.130 | 59.794 | 47.342 | 45.505 |
| Funded by: | ||||||
| DfT Grants | 38.039 | 31.245 | 27.219 | 29.335 | 25.779 | 24.743 |
| Borrowing | 13.090 | 11.69 | 12.851 | 25.450 | 19.515 | 20.531 |
| Other Contributions | 0.000 | 1.865 | 2.060 | 5.009 | 2.048 | 0.231 |
| Total | 51.129 | 44.800 | 42.130 | 59.794 | 47.342 | 45.505 |
Lancashire is committed to working smarter and more sustainably in maintaining our highways. We are using materials that contain recycled plastics to fit potholes and, where possible, using low carbon foam mix and in situ recycling and have trialled the use of bio binders. Trials of 'dot matrix' style printed road markings has meant less disruption the motorists and reduced risk to opeartives. Employing 'safe dig' techniques has also reduced occurrences of cable strikes. Lancashire is part of the East Ridding LiveLabs2 project and is looking at innovative ways of decarbonising the Public Real
Lancashire County Council (LCC) will ensure that a forward plan of all resurfacing schemes is shared with Utility Companies via multiple communication channels. These channels will include but not limited to Permits (statutory s.58 Process) in Street Manager, Quarterly Co-ordination Meetings and email notifications to the Utility forward planning teams.
It is important that LCC ensure early engagement is undertaken to prevent the need for any Utility to excavate in the newly resurfaced road(s). Legislation allows for a number exemptions, though through proactive engagement these will be minimized and be an exception.
All works that are required within a newly resurfaced road will be rigorously challenged, even if the works fall within the exemption criteria to ensure that Highway Asset is protected at all times.
Made possible by reallocated HS2 funding
These projects are being delivered from the government's Network North funding designed to deliver cheaper, faster and more reliable transport across the UK.
Network North - Levelling Up (Gov.uk)