The first repairs of a seven-week pothole repair trial have been carried out in Devon.
Work has started on the pilot scheme which will see Devon Highways filling all potholes, not just safety defects, in selected trial areas of the county for the rest of this month and throughout October.
The trial areas cover parts of Barnstaple as well as areas in Hatherleigh, Chagford and...
Devon County Council has announced today (4 September) that it will be embarking on a seven-week trial of changes to its pothole repair procedures.
At today’s Full Council meeting, councillors heard that a pilot will get underway from Monday 15 September in parts of Barnstaple as well as west Devon areas of Hatherleigh, Chagford and North Tawton.
A public information event will be held next week (Tuesday 9 September) about the upcoming A382 improvements near Newton Abbot.
The scheme, which is due to start towards the end of September, will upgrade and re-align the A382 between Forches Cross and Stover (Ice House Copse) and develop the Jetty Marsh Link road and Whitehills roundabout to help ease congestion, improve safety and...
A ceremonial turf cutting has marked the occasion with Devon County Council Chairman John Hart joined by fellow councillors, David Reed MP for Exmouth and Exeter East, project partners and contractor Octavius Infrastructure Limited who will be carrying out the work.
UK Government funding was successfully secured for the scheme by the County Council and it is also being backed with...
All upgraded sections of the North Devon Link Road are now open. Improved stretches of the A361 have been opening in stages and the final developments between South Molton and Portmore roundabout are now substantially complete. In recent weeks, the new Landkey roundabout, improved sections between Portmore roundabout and Landkey roundabout, and between Landkey roundabout and Harford Cross...
Devon County Council (DCC) will propose to Government that a proportion of a recent road safety funding award for a North Devon Road be used to deploy the latest in AI camera technology to help save lives.
In March DCC learned it had been awarded £5,040,000 from the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Safer Roads Fund (SRF) to deliver safety improvements on the A361 in North Devon...
Extra funding to help repair Devon’s battered roads has been approved but comes as the county’s backlog of repairs hits an estimated £200 million.
Thanks to savings accrued during the year and a budget underspend, Devon is now able to put £12 million extra into maintaining the county’s roads, notably repairing its deluge of potholes and improving drainage issues.
Simon Jupp, MP for East Devon, met with the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt MP, in Parliament on 31st January to ask for further funding to resurface and repair Devon’s roads.
Highlighting the concerns raised with him by residents across East Devon, Simon Jupp MP outlined the challenges facing Devon’s roads which are coming to the end of their service life, especially in more rural areas....
A spate of collisions involving pedestrians in Plymouth is causing concern for officers in Devon & Cornwall
Between Sunday 7 January and Wednesday 11 January 2024, Devon & Cornwall Police have attended three collisions involving pedestrians. As a result, one pedestrian sadly lost their life, and two have suffered life-changing injuries and remain being treated at a local...
More than 65 road repair schemes in Devon are being brought forward with additional funding recently announced by Government.
Devon County Council is receiving an extra £6.663 million for highway maintenance this financial year.
The money is a share of the Government’s £8.3 billion investment in roads over the next 11 years using funds redirected from the cancelled HS2 rail line...
