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Jul 2023
£500,000 scheme in prospect to improve Ripon city centre roads
The long-awaited renewal of damaged and uneven roads that run alongside Ripon Market Square is finally in sight.
A scheme costing an estimated £500,000 is being drawn up by North Yorkshire Council's highways department in readiness for public consultation this autumn, with the aim of being included in the capital programme for 2024-25.
City councillors have been calling for many years for the sets of paving blocks on Market Place East and Market Place West to be removed and replaced with a tarmac surface.
At last week's meeting of the full city council, leader and North Yorkshire councillor for the Minster and Moorside division Andrew Williams, said:
In recent years North Yorkshire Council has carried out temporary repairs by putting tarmac over the worst-affected sections, leaving the surface looking like a patchwork quilt.
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