Devon County Council has received almost £7 million to help repair the damage caused to the county’s roads by the severe winter weather.
The additional funding from the Department for Transport is a share of £183.5 million of extra funding made available by the government to help with much needed road repairs following the wettest winter on record.
Recent severe weather conditions are keeping Plymouth's highways teams busy, carrying out a wide variety of road repairs alongside their regular winter services.
Amey crews have used 744 tonnes of grit on the city’s roads so far this winter but in addition to their early morning inspections and gritting runs they have also been out inspecting and repairing additional road faults caused...
Another seven Plymouth roads will be resurfaced this month in the final phase of a major five-month programme to repair some of the city’s most severely damaged roads.
The programme, which the Council’s highways contractor Amey began in July, is resurfacing whole roads and large sections of road that suffered the worst damage after the prolonged wet weather last winter.
Eleven Plymouth roads are due to be resurfaced from Sunday 29 September to the end of October, as part of a major five-month programme to repair some of the most severely damaged roads in Plymouth.
The programme, which the Council’s highways contractor Amey began in July, is resurfacing whole roads and large sections of road that suffered the worst damage after the prolonged wet...
Plymouth CIty Council has announced another two-week patching programme gets under way on Monday to repair another 17 sites on 11 roads around Plymouth.
Patching involves resurfacing areas of road where multiple potholes have developed and the general surface quality is deteriorating. Amey, Plymouth City Council’s highways contractor, is carrying out the work.
More than 2,000 of Plymouth's most urgent potholes have been successfully repaired as a result of a three-week blitz to improve the city’s roads reports Plymouth City Council.
The drive to permanently repair individual ‘category one’ potholes (those deeper than 40mm) reported by the public was planned to span two weeks, but was extended by a week to wipe out the backlog completely. The...
A two-week blitz to permanently repair some of Plymouth’s worst potholes has just got under way, ahead of a major road patching and resurfacing programme for the city.
Now that the worst of the winter weather appears to be over, extra resources have been brought in by Plymouth City Council and its highways contractor Amey, dedicated to making permanent repairs to potholes causing...
A major programme to repair some of the most severely damaged roads in Plymouth is continuing throughout July.
This month more than 32 sites on eight roads are scheduled to be patched. Patching involves resurfacing large areas of road where multiple potholes have developed and the general surface quality is deteriorating. Amey, Plymouth City Council’s highways contractor, is carrying...
