£2m grant for road repairs

Work on damaged roads in Cheshire East is to be bolstered by more than £2m of grant funding from central Government.

It follows intensive lobbying of Ministers by Cheshire East Council Leader Michael Jones and members of his Cabinet to get extra government cash to repair our weather-damaged roads.

The Council will get £1.485m in 2013/14 and a further £795,000 in 2014/15 to tackle potholes and badly-worn highways.

Cheshire East received a similar one-off payment of more than £2m from central Government last year and about £1m the year before.

The Council's highway service team handled an eight-fold increase in pothole reports in January 2011 and was hit by more frost and ice damage the following winter and then the effects of flooding and torrential rain last summer.

The Council has spent almost £17.7m on the upkeep of Cheshire East's highways in 2011/12, including £2.1m on major capital schemes.

Residents should report any defects to Cheshire East's online fault reporting page at www.cheshireeast.gov.uk or by phoning the highways team on 0300 123 5020.

(Audlem Online adds: All the photos are of potholes in the Audlem area, some now patched up, others still awaiting attention.)

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