Date revealed for completion of Harrogate’s Victoria Avenue resurfacing‘Typing error’ explains £200,000 increase in cost of Ripon scheme£260,000 resurfacing underway in village near RiponFind out here which district roads will be mended next£260,000 resurfacing works to start at village near RiponRipon car park closed due to potholesBus changes as second phase of £630,000 roadworks set to begin in Ripon‘Disappointment’ as traffic calming measures halted in Pannal AshBriggate left in ‘totally unacceptable’ state, says ex-Knaresborough mayor

Former Knaresborough mayor Philip Allott has said people have been put at risk by the half finished resurfacing of a busy town road.

Tarmac was removed from the surface of Briggate last night as part of scheduled resurfacing by North Yorkshire Council.

But the new surface has not been added and the uneven state of the highway, along with leftover debris and heavy rain, has made driving and cycling hazardous this morning.

Mr Allott, who is also a former North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, said:

“The contractors have removed all the tarmac down to the low bridge and then left the site. Debris from potholes are putting pedestrians at risk.

“It’s totally unacceptable. Why haven’t they done it in sections as per recent tarmac work in Harrogate?”

The road is unsurfaced from the junction with the A59 to the low bridge, where temporary lights are in place.

This isn’t the first time Briggate has been in the news lately. A section of wall alongside the road fell in September 2022, leading to several months of temporary traffic lights until it was repaired.

The Stray Ferret has approached North Yorkshire Council for comment.

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225 Harrogate district schemes included in council road repair budget

The retaining wall on Briggate in Knaresborough has been added to the long list of road and bridge repairs recommended for approval by members of North Yorkshire Council environment executive.

The work has been budgeted at £150,000 and is one of nearly 1,000 schemes across the county included in the £45.8 million highways capital programme 2024/25. 

The programme includes 225 schemes in the Harrogate district, ranging from the resurfacing of York Place in the heart of Harrogate to patching work right on the district boundary near Angram reservoir at the top end of Nidderdale. 

The cost of the schemes ranges from various road surface patching works in the Jennyfields area of Harrogate at £362 each, to the resurfacing of Ripon’s Market Place at £330,000. 

The schemes also include work on the bridge over Scot Beck at Thornthwaite, and further work on the landslip on the A59 to Skipton, both costed at £100,000. 

The other scheme in our district that has been added to the list is the resurfacing work on Lancaster Park Road in Harrogate, budgeted at £170,000. 

Schemes worth £3.27 million have been deferred to future years from the 2023/24 annual programme. Those in the Harrogate district include drainage projects at Darley and Beckwithshaw (budgeted at £10,000 and £48,000 respectively) and construction work on Oak Beck Bridge in Harrogate, which has a budget of £1.5 million – by far the most expensive of all the schemes across the whole county. 

The Highways Capital Programme covers the whole of North Yorkshire – which consists of Richmondshire, Hambleton, Scarborough, Ryedale, Craven, Harrogate and Selby areas – and is based on a funding settlement of £40.07 million from the Department of Transport. 

The council’s environment executive recommended that the corporate director for environment approve the programme, in consultation with environment executive member for highways and transportation.

The list of schemes is available here.

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