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Nov 2024
Final cost of latest Kex Gill landslip repairs revealed
North Yorkshire Council spent almost £3 million to repair the A59 after the latest landslip at Kex Gill.
The road closed suddenly on February 2 and reopened on June 22 after more than 85 metres of steel piles were installed into the ground to reinforce the route.
At a public meeting in Hampsthwaite in June, days before the road re-opened, Barrie Mason, the council’s assistant director for highways and transformation said the cost of the scheme had risen above £2 million and the final figure would be released later.
Five months on, the Stray Ferret asked the council for the final sum. It replied in a statement the total cost was £2.8 million.
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Four kilometres of the A59 are being realigned from Blubberhouses to Moor Lane in what is the biggest highways scheme ever undertaken by the council.
The council is contributing £12 million towards the £68.8 million overall cost. The Department for Transport’s major road network fund is contributing the rest.
The council has denied claims, which we reported here, that work on this scheme led to last winter’s landslip.
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