A Welsh local government fund is fixing and preventing potholes.
The local government borrowing initiative provides an extra £10m of revenue funding to local councils to enable them to unlock an additional £120m over two years of capital funding to accelerate the process of fixing local roads and pavements.
Thanks to the funding, an extra 600km of the local road network will be resurfaced this financial year. Roads that are most in need of repairs will be renewed, with over 200,000 thousand potholes fixed and prevented, and pavements repaired.
All 22 Welsh local authorities have been awarded funding to help them unlock the funding to fix roads on their networks across Wales, with work already started in some local authorities.
The Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales Ken Skates visited the A548 in Conwy County, one of the first roads to benefit. Approximately 14km of resurfacing will fix and prevent approximately 4000 potholes.
Skates said: "Fixing our roads is a priority for this government. Not only are we providing an extra £25m to fix and prevent potholes on our strategic road network, but we are also supporting local authorities to fix local roads.
"This will deliver a real difference to communities across Wales, fixing problems now and making our roads more resilient for the future. I look forward to seeing more and more local roads fixed over the next months.
Cllr Goronwy Edwards, Conwy’s Cabinet Member for Infrastructure, Transport and Facilities, said: "We welcome this funding from Welsh Government to improve the condition of our roads. Our road network is the Council’s largest and most valuable asset and is really important to our residents. Alongside £2M of Council investment, it means we will be spending over £6M this year on road resurfacing - to repair existing potholes and surface treatments to reduce new potholes forming."
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