Caerphilly County Borough Council has announced it will spend £7,013,381 on roads this financial year.
Its Regeneration and Environment Scrutiny Committee recently agreed how the cash will be spent.
More than £4.6m of the budget will go to structural maintenance of highways, including resurfacing of carriageways, cycle paths and foot paths and land drainage work, while £1,095,000 will be allocated to routine maintenance, including gritting and snow clearance.
The remainder of the budget will go towards:
- Road markings
- Traffic sign maintenance/cleaning
- Roundabouts
- Road closures for events
- Traffic management
- Traffic signals
Cllr Tom Williams, cabinet member for highways, transportation and planning, said: “The borough’s highway system is the authority’s biggest asset, valued at more than £1 billion. I think it is appropriate that as a council we use preventative maintenance in an effort to reduce high risk problems presenting themselves which we then have to spend large amounts of unforeseen money on.”
£2.8 million of the money will also ensure more carriageway works are possible over the next 22 years thanks to the Local Government Borrowing Initiative, funded by Welsh Government.
Caerphilly County Borough Council, along with the other Welsh Local Authorities, are able to make use of the scheme to boost their capital spend through prudential borrowing.
A further £2,150,000 budget has been allocated for street lighting in the borough, which includes the energy cost and maintenance of street lights throughout Caerphilly.