Highland Roads Recovery – Caithness road surface dressing priorities completed
The Highland Council has recently completed part of its Caithness roads maintenance programme for 2021/22. The surface dressing element of the programme is now fully complete and has been delivered in-house by the Caithness and Sutherland roads squads.
The A836 at Gills Bay (which is part of the NC500) was the last section of 17 prioritised road projects to receive surface dressing works.
£27,000 of the Caithness Area’s prioritised capital works programme for 2021/22 has enabled 1.5km (0.9 mile) of the A836 Warse Farm Road to Upper Gills to be Surface Dressed.
Other prioritised surface dressing works in Caithness included the:
- U2196 Sordale to Hilliclay Road,
- A836 BT Business Park,
- U2144 Hill of Forss,
- U2110 Lythmore Road at Lythmore Strath,
- A99 Freswick,
- B874 Buckies to Aimster,
- A836 Canisbay Cemetery to Bridge at Lower Warse,
- C1001 Isauld Glengolly Road, Shebster to Westfield,
- A99 Lyth Junction to South of Keiss,
- U3664 Whitechapel Road, Wick,
- B876 Bower to Grantown Mains,
- B874 Hoy Gillock Road, Hoy Junction to Knockdee,
- B874 Hoy Gillock Road to Corsback Junction,
- U2052 Foss Achreamie Road Skaill to Forss Junction,
- U2502 Shebster Achreamie Road at Achreamie Junction, and
- U2066 Buldoo Achreamie Road.
These 17 surface dressing works costing £259,047 in total have repaired approximately 19km (11.9 miles) of road.
The Caithness Road Structural Maintenance programme for 2021/2022 was approved by Members of the Caithness Committee in April 2021. Other prioritised works in the Caithness road maintenance programme are ongoing.
The Council is highlighting some of its roads maintenance works that have recently been completed and these are being featured on social media with the hashtag #HighlandRoadsRecovery.
It’s very important to know how to report damage to Highland Council adopted roads and pavements (including potholes). This can be done by using the online forms on the Council’s website at www.highland.gov.uk/report
Follow the positive progress being made on #HighlandRoadsRecovery @HighlandCouncil twitter.com/HighlandCouncil and www.facebook.com/highlandcouncil and on the Council’s website at: www.highland.gov.uk/highlandroadsrecovery.