Members at Badenoch and Strathspey Committee approve £1.6m Area Roads Programme 2021/22
Badenoch and Strathspey Area Committee members today approved the area’s roads programme for 2021/22.
The £1.6m budget has been made up of the revenue budget of £840,565 (for labour, plant and materials including salt for roads) and a capital budget of £765,310 (to undertake surface dressing and surfacing).
A large portion of this year’s revenue budget is being targeted towards cyclic maintenance, which includes drainage, footpath maintenance, gully cleansing, temporary patching, renewal of road markings, maintenance of signs, verge maintenance and other routine annual work.
Capital works scheduled for this year include £88,000 of patching at bell-mouths and junctions in various villages in the area, £80,325 on 5100m of surface dressing on the B9102 Lettoch – Craigvarren – Advice Junction – Tulchan.
South Street in Grantown on Spey is also set to see £35,000 investment in structural drainage and £63,000 is planned to be spent on the A939 Dava road, phase one.
There are also a number of roads that will see new surface dressing, including 1200m on the B970 Culreach (Balliefurth), 500m on the B970 sub-station to Loch Garten road and 600m on the B970 Loch Garten Junction to Mains of Garten.
Overlay works are also planned on section one of the C1137 Glentrium and the U2264 at Balnagowan. There are also surface dressing works planned for the A938 Balnacruie to Tullochgribban road, the A938 Foregin to Baddengorm road and the Station Road junction in Newtonmore.
Chair of the Badenoch and Strathspey Committee, Cllr Bill Lobban, said: “This year sees a substantial increase in the Roads Maintenance budget and that will, at least, prevent our roads from deteriorating even further but further substantial investment will be required in the forthcoming years.
“Road Maintenance is not just about tar and potholes, it’s also about drainage, white lining and a host of other functions.”
You can watch the full Badenoch and Strathspey Area Committee here: