Essex County Council announces an additional £3 million to be spent on road surface repairs

Extra funding to be targeted on road surface repairs and treatments. 

A further £3 million has been announced for Essex Highways to carry out more maintenance and repair work on roads across the county.

This extra funding, announced earlier this month at Essex County Council’s Full Council meeting, will be targeted towards road surface repairs and treatments, which will address issues reported to Essex Highways and ensure roads across the county are kept safe for residents and businesses.

This funding is in addition to Essex Highways’ £35 million 2023/24 budget for maintaining and repairing the carriageway and to the £9 million additional investment announced in February. Additional crews have been added to the Essex Highways team to help meet the volume of repairs required.

Councillor Lee Scott, Essex County Council Cabinet Member for Highways Maintenance and Sustainable Transport, said: “We have had to make some difficult decisions in this year's council budget and this reflects the challenges we’re all facing on our finances at the moment.

"I am pleased, however, that Essex County Council is able to go further and provide additional investment for maintenance and repairs of the county’s roads and footpaths over the course of the next year.

“Now the resurfacing works are underway, residents across the county are likely to benefit from the investment Essex Highways is making in maintaining the county's roads.

“Carrying out these repairs is vital to keeping Essex residents moving and supporting them to make safer, greener, and healthier choices about how they travel.”

Essex Highways is also expecting to hear shortly from the Department for Transport what the county’s allocation is from the pothole fund announced by the Chancellor in the Budget in March.