Network North Funding

Statement of spend 2023-24 & 2024-25

The following statement is made in compliance with the grant conditions for the additional highway maintenance funding from the Department of Transport (DfT) and outlines how and where the funding was spent in complementing St Helens' annual planned highway maintenance expenditure.

The additional grant funding received from the DfT for highway maintenance works during 2023/24 and 2024/25 was £749,372.80.

St Helens Borough Council is appreciative of this grant, and it enabled us to make improvements to the highway network.

The additional DfT funding complements St Helens Borough Council's own funding and, in accordance with HMEP (Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme) good practice, a comprehensive carriageway patching programme was undertaken throughout the Borough.

The additional funding will allow the authority to undertake additional carriageway resurfacing and carriageway patching.

The level of funding for planned maintenance in St Helens for 2024/25 was £3.31million and is used on structural, surface and preventative road maintenance schemes and treatment processes. The additional DfT funding complements St Helens' own funding and it supports a robust process of patching and surface treatments at a borough-wide level.