Maintenance on hold after floods wash away £1M

18 June 2008
 
Three councils in Nottinghamshire face putting some road maintenance on hold for up to 12 months because the county council overspent by almost £1M cleaning up after last year’s floods.

The county council has asked Ashfield, Broxtowe and Mansfield councils to help it claw back a £934,000 overspend in its structural maintenance programme.

Roadworks and footpath repairs planned for this financial year look to be casualties of any cuts. In Broxtowe alone, 34 streets, ranging from A-roads to non-classified roads, were due for repair. A spokeswoman for the county council confirmed that there had been an overspend but said no agreement had been reached on which scheduled repairs would have to be put back. She also said no decision had been made on whether to approach the Government for compensation to fill the hole left in the maintenance budget.

She said: ‘The county council has some accelerated capital structural maintenance expenditure caused in part by last summer’s flooding clean up. ‘The actual costs are currently being investigated, and no decisions as to remedial actions are to be made until full information is available.

‘It is anticipated that we will be able to make future plans with our highway partners within the next month,’ she said.

In January, the county council set up a select committee to examine the severe effects of last summer’s floods, and to find out if any of the devastation could have been prevented by better maintenance of drains and watercourses. A report is due at the end of this month.

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