Each year, the Council produces a report that is approved by Cabinet, which sets out how capital highway maintenance funding is allocated. It reviews the progress delivered during the 2024/25 financial year for the capital programme and details the proposed programmes for capital funding for the 2025/26 financial year.
Note: Some changes to programmes are inevitable, for instance, extreme weather, budget pressures or co-ordination with other works.
Summary of proposed maintenance within the financial year of 2025/26
| Maintenance type | Treatment type | Length in km | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preventative | Surface dressing | 325 | 158 |
| Preventative | Micro asphalt | 10 | 25 |
| Preventative | Footway slurry seal | 39 | 77 |
| Preventative | Footway reconstruction | 2.5 | 15 |
| Preventative | Joint fill | 32 | |
| Preventative | A class resurfacing | 23 | 27 |
| Preventative | B, C and U class resurfacing | 14 | 28 |
| Preventative | Recycling | 6.5 | 4 |
| Reactive | Potholes (estimated) | 59,000 |
* Note – a number of additional schemes are identified throughout the year, and programmes are subject to change, due to factors such as financial pressures and climate change. Pothole figures are an estimate based on 2024/25 figures.
2025 preventative maintenance programmes
A customisable dashboard of the wider programme allows users to focus on certain electoral divisions, parishes, class of road, and type of scheme.