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Funded road repairs following Winter 2010/11

In the budget of the 23rd March 2011 the Chancellor announced £100 million of funding for local authorities to repair the damage to highways, following the extreme winter weather that was experienced during the winter of 2010/11. The funding allocation was described as exceptional, recognising that the past winter had been the most prolonged period of severe winter weather for 30 years.

Calderdale Council received £683,076 from the Department for Transport (DfT) towards repairing roads whose condition had deteriorated significantly as a result of the winter weather. The additional funding significantly complemented the existing highway maintenance budget. When allocating the money the DfT insisted that local authorities use the additional funding in a way that would maximise the benefits to road users over the longer term. This brief statement describes how Calderdale Highways allocated and spent the grant money.

To ensure that the money was spent in those areas where the most significant deterioration had occurred, Calderdale Highways consulted a number of sources including; Highway Safety Inspectors, other Highways staff, service requests made by members of the public, councillors and survey data to name a few. This data combined with site visits enabled a short list of suitable sites to be produced.

Each site was assessed and measured and the most cost effective treatment was selected. Treatments included a combination of hand laid and machine laid patches, surface dressing and micro-asphalt.

In total Calderdale Highways were able to repair 13km of road with the grant. The table details the streets which were repaired and the type of treatment they received:

Road number	Road name	To / from	Description of work	Ward
A646	Burnley Road, Brearley	Lamp column 335 to lamp column 314	Carriageway resurfacing	Luddendenfoot
A58	Rochdale Road, Ripponden	Borough boundary to Nursery Lane	Carriageway patch and surface dress	Ryburn
C5952	Claremount Road, Boothtown	Royd Mount to Back Royd	Carriageway resurfacing	Northowram and Shelf
C539	Shaw Wood Road and Broadgate, Todmorden	Halifax Road to Lee Bottom Road	Carriageway resurfacing	Calder
-	Clare Road, Halifax	Prescott Street to New Road	Carriageway resurfacing	Town
-	Prescott Street inc. Skircoat Road junction, Halifax	New Road to Skircoat Road	Carriageway resurfacing	Town
-	Station Road, Luddendenfoot	Boy Mill Road to the Old Brandy Wine	Carriageway resurfacing	Luddendenfoot
-	Stones Drive, Ripponden	Rochdale Road to house number 34	Carriageway resurfacing	Ryburn
-	Brackenbed Lane, Halifax	4 Brackenbed Lane to Glengarth	Carriageway resurfacing	Warley
-	Mixenden Road, Mixenden	Dodge Holme Drive to house number 47	Large carriageway patch	Illingworth and Mixenden
-	Gibbet Street, Halifax	Kenyon Lane to Queens Road	Carriageway resurfacing	Park
-	Riley Lane, Bradshaw	Holdsworth Road to the War Memorial	Proprietary surface treatment	Illingworth and Mixenden
-	Green Lane, West Vale	Near junction with Stainland Road	Carriageway patching	Greetland and Stainland
-	Styes Lane, Sowerby	Pinfold Lane to Stoney Lane	Overlay	Ryburn
-	Prospect Avenue, Pye Nest	Pye Nest Road to house number 108	Carriageway patch and surface dress	Sowerby Bridge
-	Spring Hall Lane, Halifax	Junction of Albert Road and Hanson Lane	Carriageway patching	Warley
-	Lilac Street, Lee Mount	House number 1 to house number 11	Proprietary surface treatment	Ovenden