The roads and paths due to be repaired across Cambridgeshire in 2024-25 with £48.7m funding

The roads and footpaths across the county that are due to be fixed this year have been set out by Cambridgeshire County Council.

Councillors approved a list of prioritised maintenance projects as they agreed the highways maintenance programme, which will lead to £48.722million of spending in 2024-25 and a further £46.422million in 2025-26.

This is funded via Department for Transport grants, additional government money announced in the Autumn Statement, funds for detrunking the A14 and A1307 and £40million invested by the council itself, which will enable the list of projects to be extended further.

The schemes include £1.363m of carriageway and footway work including cycle paths, in Cambridge in the coming year, with a further £1.44m due to be spent in the city the following year.

Cllr Alex Beckett (Lib Dem, Queen Edith’s), chair of the highways and transport committee, told fellow councillors last week: “It is brilliant to be able to add this amount of money. It is never enough. This investment, while it is double pretty much what we would normally spend on highways maintenance, it still only affects about one per cent of the network, so it is never going to be enough to do everything and to reverse the decades of decline that we have had.

“However, I really do believe that this level of investment will help make a marked difference and for the first time in a long time get us out of managed decline and actually be able to keep our roads still, and hopefully be going in a positive direction.

“It still boggles my brain that National Highways has about 33 times as much funding to spend on its major roads as we do per kilometre, and it is no wonder that local government is struggling with the state of its roads due to that starvation of funding.

“While Cambridgeshire’s roads are not in the state I would like them to be, I am also very proud of the fact that our officers have managed to make sure they are in a better state than they could be, and in a better state than some of our neighbours’.

“So thank you to all the work on that one and I really hope that this funding will be positively received, be delivered in a really good value for money way and will start to make a real difference for our residents.”

Carriageway and footway maintenance work prioritised for 2024

Cambridge

£120,000 – Footway repairs to various city centre footways
£40,000 – Footway resurfacing along Mill End Road
£651,000 – Phase one of footway resurfacing the estate including Suez Road, Hobart Road, Madras Road, and Marmora Road
£552,000 – Carriageway resurfacing along Newmarket Road from Barnwell Road roundabout to Meadowlands Road (linked with a Greater Cambridge Partnership scheme)

South Cambridgeshire

£250,000 – Footway resurfacing along Duxford Road in Whittlesford from the village to the Royston Road crossroads as part of a Greater Cambridge Partnership scheme
£380,000 – Footway resurfacing along Newmarket Road in Bottisham, from Bell Road to High Street
£460,000 – Carriageway resurfacing along Cambridge Road in Little Abington, between the speed bumps through the village
£430,000 – Carriageway resurfacing along Ely Road in Milton, from Denny End to just past Waterbeach Lodge
£325,000 – Carriageway resurfacing along Church Street in Gamlingay, from junction through to Church End

East Cambridgeshire

£288,000 – Footway resurfacing along New Barns Avenue, in Ely, for the section from Cemetery junction to Lynn Road link
£155,000 – Footway resurfacing along Kirkby Cross Avenue in Littleport
£828,000 – Carriageway strengthening and resurfacing along two sections of Lyn Road – near Brandon Creek and near the A1101, including the roundabout

Huntingdonshire

£180,000 – Footway resurfacing along Broadway in Yaxley, from number 140 to the bus shelter
£190,000 – Footway resurfacing along Maryland Avenue in Huntingdon
£1,241,400 – Carriageway resurfacing along two of the “worst sections” of Chatteris Road in Somersham
£170,000 – Carriageway reconstruction along California Road in Huntingdon, from Arbury Road to the corner
£120,000 – Additional carriageway surfacing on Cambridge Road in St Neots, at the High Street
£190,000 – Carriageway surfacing along New Street in St Neots, from the High Street to the start of Lammas Meadow

Fenland

£420,000 – Footway resurfacing a full estate in Wisbech that includes Windsor Drive, Prince of Wales Close, and Jubilee Walk, including separated footways
£68,000 – Concrete overlay on the footway along Perry Road, in Leverington
£58,000 – Footway resurfacing along Poplar Close, in March
£375,000 – Carriageway resurfacing in Leverington, along Church Road, Church End, Gorefield Road, and Roman Bank, from the sports club to eight Roman Bank and Ringers Lane junction
£475,000 – Carriageway strengthening and resurfacing along two sections at either end of Padgetts Road in Christchurch