Network North Road Resurfacing Fund
Additional Highways Maintenance Funding: Network North
We have received a total of £2.347m in 2023 to 2024 and £2.347m in 2024 to 2025 for local road resurfacing and wider maintenance activity on the local highway network from Government’s Network North Road Resurfacing Fund.
We are scheduled to receive an additional £156.777m between now and 2033/34.
This money will be spent on resurfacing roads, cycleways and footways and maintaining bridges and street lighting, as well as preventing potholes and other road defects.
We have prioritised work based on the condition of the road and used annual condition surveys of the highway network, while considering other local factors such as:
- road importance
- number of reported defects
- number of customer complaints
Locations where additional funding will be used
The road number, location and the type of work we will be doing.
2023 to 2024 Network North schemes
- C6003; Long Lane, Dalton - carriageway resurfacing
- C6006; Promenade, Walney - carriageway resurfacing
- C6009; Market Street, Dalton - carriageway resurfacing
- A686; Sceugh Farm - carriageway resurfacing
- C3013; Langwathby to Skirwith, Langwathby - carriageway resurfacing
- C3053; Sleagill to High Murber, Sleagill - carriageway resurfacing
- C3043; Woodfoot/Butterwick, Bampton - carriageway resurfacing
- U3489; Carleton Hill Road, Carleton - carriageway resurfacing
- C3055; Newby to Sleagill Machine patching - carriageway resurfacing
- C3057; Soulby Grange (Crosby Garrett to Railway Bridge) - carriageway resurfacing
- C3033; Briarsgate - carriageway resurfacing and drainage
- C3009; Winskill Village, Winskill - carriageway resurfacing
- B6260; Shaws Weind, Appleby - carriageway resurfacing
- B5282; The Promenade, Arnside - carriageway resurfacing
- U5719; North Lonsdale Road, Ulverston - carriageway resurfacing
- A685; Grayrigg Village, Grayrigg - carriageway resurfacing
- U5746; Droomer Drive, Windermere - carriageway resurfacing
- U883 Stainbank Road, Kendal, Top End - carriageway resurfacing
- Various locations - street lighting and other lighting works
- Various locations - street lighting (replacements), other lighting works and replacement lighting
2024 to 2025 Network North schemes
- Abbey Road, Barrow - carriageway resurfacing
- Millstone Avenue, Barrow - carriageway resurfacing
- Askam Road, Romney Road Skelgate, Barrow - carriageway and surface dressing
- Belvedere Road, Barrow - footways and cycleways resurface
- Spray Patching Programme, Barrow - carriageway patching and potholes
- Carleton Village, Penrith - carriageway resurfacing
- Silver Street, Kirkby Stephen - carriageway resurfacing
- Pategill, Penrith - carriageway resurfacing
- Drawbriggs Lane, Appleby - footways and cycleways resurfacing
- Force Mills to Roger Ground, Hawkshead - carriageway surface dressing
- Tottlebank to the Causeway, Bouth - carriageway surface dressing
- Holker to Haverthwaite, Haverthwaite - carriageway surface dressing
- Lindale Roundabout to Lindale, Lindale - carriageway surface dressing
- Barbon to Barbon Beck Footbridge, Barbon - carriageway surface dressing
- Rydal Water, Ambleside - carriageway resurfacing
- John Ruskin School to Lake, Coniston - carriageway resurfacing
- Plantation Av and Plantation Grove, Arnside - footways and cycleways resurface
- South Lakeland - spray patching programme, carriageway patching and potholes
- Eden area - spray patching programme, carriageway patching and potholes
- Various locations - road Lighting Improvements
Innovation in the delivery of highways maintenance
We continue to be at the forefront of innovation in highways maintenance. Our digital inspections process and customer reporting tool ensures that we can accurately identify and record the condition of our highways assets and prioritise any necessary repairs.
We will continue to adopt and develop new innovative and sustainable solutions to ensure that this additional funding will assist us in reducing our maintenance backlog.
We continue to trial and use new products such as warm asphalt and insitu recycled materials whilst at the same time using new equipment such as spray patching, surface dressing and other preventative treatments along with use of thermal patchers and pot hole pros.
Coordination of roadworks
We will work closely with all utility companies to ensure that a forward plan of all highways schemes is shared via multiple communication channels.
These channels will include but not limited to Permits (statutory s.58 Process) in Street Manager, Quarterly Co-ordination Meetings and email notifications to the Utility forward planning teams.
All roadworks will be carefully planned and managed by Westmorland and Furness Council with the aim of minimising disruption to the travelling public and to prevent the need for any Utility to excavate in the newly resurfaced road(s).
To ensure the public and local businesses are kept fully informed All planned and emergency roadworks will be published on our website and One Network.
Made possible by reallocated HS2 funding
