Posted on Wednesday 12th March 2025
An extra £45 million will be invested in maintaining and improving Staffordshire’s highways over the next three years.
Added to this, a further up to £15 million will be ploughed into the county council’s Fixing More Roads scheme, which over the past year has seen more than 36,000 potholes repaired.
In plans to be discussed by Staffordshire County Council’s Cabinet, the extra investment will see:
- 20 road reconstruction schemes planned to be being completed between 2024/25 to 2026/27
- More than 450 preventative carriageway maintenance schemes, totalling 1.4 million square metres in 2025/26
- More than £1 million of work to repair highway drainage
The extra up to £15 million will fund an additional JCB Pothole Pro and crew, as well as a full preventative maintenance programme to help prevent defects forming in the first place.
Money will also be spent on extra crews to tackle drainage and flooding issues in the county, and targeted enforcement on landowners with drainage issues affecting the highway.
Councillor Mark Deaville, Cabinet Member for Strategic Highways said:
“Good roads affect everyone in this county, which is why having a strategic plan of maintenance and improvements is key to keeping our highways in a decent condition and safe for all users.
“The extra money invested last year has really paid dividends, in that we were able to come out of the wettest winter on record and put a concerted effort into fixing more roads. Building on this, we want to invest more money into tackling potholes, drainage and the effects that warmer, wetter winters are having on our roads. Added to this, our structural renewal programme is going from strength to strength, with many new projects scheduled for 2025/26.
“Climate change and the effect it is having on our roads means we must also prepare for more extreme weather events. Therefore, this funding will also be used to address longer term issues, including enforcement on landowners with drainage assets affecting the highways.
“The extra money we are investing means we will be able to build on last year’s successful programme, fix more roads and really make a difference to local people.”
Full details of the investment can been seen here and will be recommended to the county council’s Cabinet for approval on March 19.