Local roads across Wales are being fixed as work begins as a
result of a scheme which is unlocking up to £120m for local
councils
The Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales today visited one of the first roads to benefit, the
A548 in Conwy County between Abergele and Llangernyw.
The local government borrowing initiative provides an extra £10m
of revenue funding to local councils to enable them to unlock an
additional £120m over two years of capital funding to accelerate
the process of fixing our local roads and pavements.
The funding boost will see an extra 600km of the local road
network resurfaced this financial year. Roads that are most in
need of repairs will be renewed, with over 200,000 thousand
potholes fixed and prevented, and pavements repaired in local
authorities across Wales.
The scheme has been designed in close partnership with the Welsh
Local Government Association (WLGA).
All 22 local authories have been awarded funding to help
them unlock the funding to fix roads on their networks across
Wales. Work has already started in some local authorities and
this will fix thousands of potholes and prevent hundreds of
thousands in future years.
In Conwy County the work on the A548 means approximately 14km of
resurfacing which will fix and prevent approximately 4000
potholes. Part of the road has already been completed as
part of the scheme, making it one of the first to benefit.
said: “Fixing our roads is a priority for this
government. Not only are we providing an extra £25m to fix
and prevent potholes on our strategic road network, but we are
also supporting local authorities to fix local roads.
“This will deliver a real difference to communities across Wales,
fixing problems now and making our roads more resilient for the
future. I look forward to seeing more and more local roads
fixed over the next months.”
Cllr Goronwy Edwards, Conwy's Cabinet Member for Infrastructure,
Transport and Facilities, said: “We welcome this funding from
Welsh Government to improve the condition of our roads. Our road
network is the Council's largest and most valuable asset and is
really important to our residents. Alongside £2M of Council
investment, it means we will be spending over £6M this year on
road resurfacing - to repair existing potholes and surface
treatments to reduce new potholes forming.”
