More than 100 projects set up to improve highways
MORE than 100 highways works projects have been scheduled for Macclesfield for 2022-23, including work to deal with the dreaded menace of pot holes.
Cheshire East Council has announced its schedule for the borough and it includes 115 for Macclesfield, 23 for Poynton and eight for Disley.
As well as patching work on potholes there will be drainage dig downs, a handful of resurfacing schemes, street light column replacement, junction work and improvements for pedestrians.
Among the first projects scheduled this month is the creation of a pedestrian route near Bollington St John’s Primary and work on traffic signals at Cumberland Street and Park green.
Patching work is also due to begin on Ankers Knowle Lane, in Sutton.
Other locations set for patching work include:
Beeston Brow, Jackson Lane, Chancery Lane, Highfield Road and Clarke Lane, in Bollington.
Robin Hood Avenue, Sandown Place, St George’s Place, Sussex Avenue, Whirley Road, Becks Lane and St Austell Avenue, in Macclesfield.
Buxton Road and
Buxton Old Road, Disley.
Middlewood Road, Cornfield Road, Sugar Lane and Hope Lane, Poynton.
Minn End Lane, Salters Lane, Station Road, and Cowbrook Lane, Gawsworth, Fitz Crescent, in Tytherington, and Whistons Lane, in Sutton.
There is also junction work scheduled for the Silk Road as well as a feasibility study for a cycling and pedestrian scheme and extra bus stops will be placed on Hulley Road.
Brook Street, Buxton
New Road, Coppice Rise and Moss Lane, in Macclesfield, have all been earmarked for resurfacing.
A council spokesman said it is responsible for 2,700 kilometres of highway and has approved an additional £19m capital investment in maintenance over the next three years, funded by borrowing.
But the council says government highways maintenance funding was cut by £3m in 2020-21 and has been frozen since.
The spokesman said: “We identify and prioritise what highways maintenance, repairs and improvements to do each year and allocates the available budget for work programmes in accordance with its asset management approach.”
Highways’ funding is split into two areas – revenue and capital.
Revenue comes from council tax and is for day-to-day maintenance work.
Capital funding is provided by government grants and council investment to improve the road network.
The full programme is available on the council’s website.