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Revealed: Roads in Harrogate district due for upgrades in 2026/27
About 150 roads in the Harrogate district are due to undergo upgrades worth a combined £7.1 million in 2026/27.
The roads are included on North Yorkshire Council’s highways capital programme for 2026/27, details of which were released in a report yesterday (March 6).
The council’s highways budget for the entire county is £62.7 million.
We have gone through the list of schemes in the Harrogate district to see where the £7.1 million allocated to the area will be spent.
Harrogate accounts for by far the greatest number of schemes, but Knaresborough has two of the three most expensive, including the £380,000 resurfacing and reconstruction of Manor Road, which is the highest value scheme on the list.
The entire sum for Ripon is less than £100,000, of which £65,000 will be spent on the resurfacing and reconstruction of Red Hills Road footway. More will be spent on Underlands Road in Melmerby than the entire sum for Ripon.
No schemes for Boroughbridge or Masham are included.
Here is a list of the 11 specific projects that are each worth more than £100,000, in order of value:
- Knaresborough — Manor Road resurfacing and reconstruction £380,000
- Kirk Deighton — B6164 Main Street resurfacing and reconstruction £335,670
- Knaresborough — Aspin Lane resurfacing and reconstruction £293,756
- Pateley Bridge — B6265 Nidd Walk to Bridgehouse Gate resurfacing and reconstruction £196,493
- Harrogate — Raglan Street footway resurfacing and reconstruction £190,000
- Kirk Deighton — B6164 Wetherby Road resurfacing and reconstruction £144,598
- Cundall — Cundall to Poplar Hill patching £115,920
- Harrogate — St Clement’s Road patching £115,920
- Harrogate — St George’s Road patching £115,920
- Melmerby — Underlands Lane resurfacing and reconstruction £110,000
- Knaresborough — Stockwell Road resurfacing and reconstruction £105,000
Some roads have multiple entries on the list. For example, more than £100,000 will be spent improving Follifoot Lane in Spofforth in two separate schemes.
A total of £96,600 is allocated to patching St Andrew’s Avenue and extra sums have been earmarked for patching multiple nearby streets in the St Andrew’s area.
North Stainley will benefit from three patching schemes worth almost £200,000 combined.
The village of Whixley is in line for 13 schemes.
James Gilroy, the council’s team leader for highways asset management who wrote the report, said:
Whilst the additional funding and longer-term visibility is welcomed, it should be viewed in the context of the challenges that we face in maintaining our network.
Inflationary pressures over the past five years have resulted in significant increases in costs for highway maintenance activities. Whilst the rate of inflation has slowed recently, costs are still significantly higher than 2020/21. As such the amount of work we have been able to complete in recent years is lower than the period pre-2020/21.
The council also announced separate funding for new transport schemes this week. You can read more here.
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