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Norfolk roads where £6.4m will be used to prevent potholes
Resurfacing, surface dressing and patching will be done on dozens more roads across Norfolk.
And there will be a specific £550,000 spent on Fen roads in the west of the county, where dry conditions last summer caused soil beneath road surfaces to shrink, making roads crack and become uneven.
More than £1m will be spent on major A roads, including £190,000 on the A140 Sweet Briar Road in Norwich, at the junction with Drayton Road.
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Other A roads set for work include £290,000 on the A143 Yarmouth Road at Ellingham, £250,000 on the A1064 at Fleggburgh, £212,000 on the A149 coast road at Burnham Overy and £126,000 at the Stockton roundabout near Gillingham where the A146 and A143 meet.
B roads to benefit from £1.3m include the B1145 at the North Walsham Bypass, at Gayon and at Great Massingham.
Other B roads where work will be done include the B1136 at Hales, Unthank Road in Norwich, the B1077 at Attleborough and the B1116 at Harleston.
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Some £1.5m worth of surface dressing will be done on roads across the county, while £264,000 will be spent to resurface footpaths at Eastern Close in Thorpe St Andrew and Greenborough Road in Sprowston.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced Norfolk’s extra £6.4m in March’s budget.
Graham Plant, the Conservative-controlled council’s cabinet member for highways, infrastructure and transport at Norfolk County Council said: “The programme has been developed using highway condition data, engineering knowledge and feedback from local highways teams.
“It focuses on proactive measures to prevent potholes forming in the first place such as resurfacing, surface dressing and patching works.
“In addition, we are proposing to use the funding for recycling treatments on roads in the west of the county, which were affected by the hot weather last summer.”
County Hall bosses previously raised concerns it would cost £57.4m to tackle the backlog of repairs and maintenance needed on Norfolk’s roads.
