Council set to spend £2 million on road repairs in Highland

The Highland Council is set to invest heavily on improving the regional road network which has been damaged by snow and ice over the past two winters.

The Council is to receive £1.645 million as its share of the £15 million allocated to Scottish councils for road repairs by the Scottish Government and the Council’s Administration is recommending a further £355,00 be allocated to road repairs in 2011/12 to take the total to £2 million.

In addition, the TECS Committee agreed last week to bring forward £500,000 of capital funding for structural road maintenance to the current financial year to help with repairs to the local road network.

Councillor John Laing, Chairman of the Council’s Transport Environmental and Community Services Committee, said the additional funding from the Scottish Government was very welcome.
 
He said: “This additional funding will be put to good use in repairing our road network which has had to withstand two winters with extremely low temperatures resulting in widespread frost damage. It is important that we get value for money and the work to carry out the permanent repairs will start once the weather has improved.”