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Sept 2024
Council publishes list of streets in the Harrogate district set for highways upgrades
Councillors have approved a large number of additional highways projects to take place across the Harrogate district
North Yorkshire Council’s executive members for environment met to discuss the proposal on Thursday (September 12), which will see around £55 million worth of schemes set to be implemented across the county.
A report put before councillors outlined plans to include additional schemes in the Highways Capital Forward Programme, which concerns street lighting, bridges, structures, integrated transport and road maintenance matters.
The report says the corporate director for environment, Karl Battersby, and highways boss, Keane Duncan, agreed on provisional allocations of the 2025-2026 budget – and how this would be distributed across work categories – in July.
The schemes are backed by a £65.71m funding settlement from the Department for Transport, the report said. It adds this figure is based on the assumption the £37.02m base funding remains plus an additional £28.63m, "relating to Network North road maintenance funding", is received.
Local projects up to the value of nearly £400,000 were included in the proposal, but no clear timeline has been set.
A resurfacing and/or reconstruction (R&R) project on King’s Road, in Harrogate, will receive the most substantial sum of funding out of all the district's projects – totalling £395,000.
The A59 Skipton Road near Killinghall will undergo a £315,000 R&R revamp.
£325,000 will spent on work to the A661 roundabout in Plompton towards Bramham Hall, while £221,400 will be put towards R&R work on Dallamires Lane in Ripon.
The Stray Ferret has compiled a list of all the projects that have been added to the Highways Capital Forward Programme in the Harrogate district.
We have split the council’s list into alphabetical order to make it easier to digest, which you can find below.
A breakdown of abbreviations of the type of work due to take place is summarised at the end of this story.
£85,000 will be spent on Avenue Close. Credit: Google Maps
Bridges
Some bridges and structural schemes were also approved as additions to the Highways Capital Forward Programme.
You can see the list of bridges and their budgets below.
Bridges and structural schemes.
Abbreviations
SD – Surface dressing.
R&R – Resurfacing and / or reconstruction.
R&R in situ recycling - Resurfacing and / or reconstruction using existing materials in the road surface.
Rejuvenator – Solution is applied to carriageway surface which reacts with the asphalt surface layer helping to strengthen the carriageway surface close to an as laid condition.
Retexturing – Where the surface of the road is hydro blasted or shot blasted to restore surface texture.
Micro – A thin surface course applied carriageway surfaces to provide a level surface.
The report says a draft annual 2025 to 2026 programme is currently being developed and will be finalised over the next three months.
An update on the refined programme will be given at a meeting in November.
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