Potholes throughout Leicestershire are set to be fixed after the city and county councils protected a share of Government financing to help deal with the issue. The money was revealed by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt as part of the budget plan in a quote to enhance England’s highways.
Some £200 million nationally has actually been set aside for highways upkeep throughout the 2023-24 fiscal year. This remains in addition to the existing highways upkeep financing revealed in October 2021, which assured more than £2.7 billion of regional highways upkeep financing in between 2022 and 2025.
Leicester City Council and Leicestershire County Council have actually both been designated a share of the freshly revealed financing which is ring fenced particularly for pit repair work. Leicestershire County Council, which is accountable for the maintenance of county roadways, will get £3,156,400. Leicester City Council will get £580,000.
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The repair work will help lower vehicle upkeep expenses for employees, households and businesses, and protect the roadway network, ministers have actually declared. County councillor Phil King said the injection of money was welcome news for all roadway users throughout Leicestershire and in his own ward of Harborough. However, others were less persuaded by how far the money would extend.
One LeicestershireLive reader said it “should just about cover the work in Harborough”. A 2nd included: “[It would] be cheaper to buy everyone a 4×4 and leave the potholes alone.”
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