Hampshire County Council Gosport Highway Management Advisory Panel 18 November 2003 Highway Maintenance and Minor Capital Works Programmes 2003/04 Report of the Director of Environment

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Contact: Andrew Peryer, tel 02392 545417 email:[email protected]

1. Summary

1.1 This report outlines progress with regard to the 2003/04 Highway Maintenance and Minor Capital Works programmes and gives an update on the 2003/04 Highway Maintenance budget.

2. Background

2.1 As previously reported, the Highway Maintenance programme is funded from both revenue and capital allocations.

2.2 The revenue maintenance programme funds minor works such as, pothole repairs and routine drainage work, including gully cleaning, signs and road markings, environmental maintenance of grass verges, trees and shrubs, weed control and highway emergencies. Minor bridge works and winter maintenance are also funded from revenue. Budget allocations are set at a level that ensures the safety and serviceability of the highway network.

2.3 The capital maintenance programme funds planned maintenance, including special maintenance, resurfacing and surface dressing, and also provides for essential repairs to the structure of the highway.

3. Highway Maintenance Budget and Programme 2003/04

3.1 The Highway Maintenance budget for 2003/04, approved by the Executive Member for Environment, is £46,889,000. This sum comprises £19,615,000 revenue funding and £27,274,000 funding from the capital programme provision.

Revenue Maintenance Budget and Programme

3.2 The total revised allocation for Gosport for 2003/04 is £294,000, excluding those elements included in paragraph 3.4. Progress throughout the year has been in line with the spend profile and it is expected that the programme will be completed within time and budget constraints. A budget monitoring statement is attached as Appendix 1.

3.3 The revenue maintenance programme funds three main areas of highway maintenance:

(i) reactive minor repair works on the road, cycleway and footway network;

(ii) maintenance of current traffic signs and road markings and minor traffic management improvements; and

(iii) the environmental aspects of highway maintenance, including grass cutting, weed treatment, and tree and shrub maintenance.

3.4 Additional revenue budgets are held centrally for the performance elements of the County Council's term maintenance contract. The performance based work contained in the contract includes:

(i) gully emptying;

(ii) visibility splay grass cutting;

(iii) winter maintenance;

(iv) routine bridge maintenance; and

(v) `A' road routine maintenance.

3.5 It is noted that this year there have been more footway damage incidents due to tree roots; Jamaica Place, High Street Gosport and Bury Road, in particular there is also still significant damage caused by vehicle overrun on footways and verges.

Capital Maintenance Budget and Programme

3.6 The total allocation for Gosport for 2003/04 is £831,000, which includes £63,000 from the £3.5 million county-wide additional funding previously reported. The funding allocation for the capital maintenance `planned works' programme is based on the proven HAMP rating system and reflects the agreed intervention levels. The HAMP rating intervention level directs funding to those maintenance schemes displaying a higher maintenance need. Planned structural maintenance repairs undertaken through the capital maintenance programme include surface dressing, special maintenance and resurfacing schemes.

3.7 This year's schemes are progressing well with the expectation that the planned maintenance programme will be delivered within time and budget constraints. Progress on this year's schemes is shown in Appendix 2.

3.8 The capital maintenance programme also supports the centrally controlled areas of work, including major maintenance schemes and bridge maintenance.

3.9 Surface dressing is an extremely cost-effective way of prolonging the life of the carriageway, sealing cracks and restoring skid resistance. The total budget county-wide of £3,297,000 is managed centrally and for 2003/04 supported a HAMP intervention level of 50 on the principal road network. High performance surface dressing on the non-principal roads has a HAMP intervention level of 60 and the intervention level is 70 for the urban and minor roads programmes. Footway surface dressing sites are usually selected on the recommendation of the engineers who carry out highway inspections and areas that have a poor skid resistance, are heavily patched or affected by utility trenches are the preferred choices for treatment. All sites on this year's programme for Gosport have now been successfully treated. This year's schemes are listed in Appendix 2.

4. Minor Capital Works

4.1 The Minor Capital Works programme (also known as the Under £10,000 programme) is funded from the capital allocation based on the Local Transport Plan submission to the Department for Transport.

4.2 A sum of £10,000 was allocated for Gosport in 2003/04. In addition, developer funding was allocated which enabled cycleway lighting enhancements to be carried out between Whitworth Road and Holbrook. These works are referred to in the Street Lighting report and are substantially complete.

5. Other Works

5.1 Hampshire Highways Gosport has carried out design and supervision on other schemes during the current financial year funded by developers, Groundworks Trust and for the Regeneration of Older Urban Areas programme. These are set out on Appendix 3.

Recommendation

That this report be noted.

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APPENDIX 1

	2003/2004		Percentage Committed (Sep)
	Original Allocation	Revised Allocation
Revenue Budget 2002/03
Routine Maintenance (carriageway, footway repairs)	126,000	112,000	30
Gully Cleansing	4,000	4,000	50
Aids to Movement (signs and road markings)	40,000	40,000	50
Traffic Management TROs (GBC)	7,000	7,000	30
Environmental (grass, trees, shrubs) (GBC)	81,000	81,000	50
Weed Control (GBC)	26,000	26,000	50
Hazard Clearance	10,000	24,000	50
Total	294,000	294,000	43
Capital Budget 2002/03 Principal Roads
Principal Roads Routine Structural Repairs	6,000	6,000	50
Principal Roads Special Maintenance	47,000	47,000	40
Principal Roads Resurfacing	Nil	Nil	0
Total	53,000	53,000	41
Capital Budget 2002/03 Non-Principal Roads
Non-Principal Roads Routine Structural Repairs	229,000	229,000	70
Non-Principal Roads Special Maintenance	237,000	237,000	36
Additional footway works	63,000	63,000	0
Non-Principal Roads Resurfacing	185,000	185,000	75
Non-Principal Roads Tactile Paving Crossing Points	14,000	14,000	80
Total	728,000	728,000	55
Total Maintenance Budget Allocation Gosport	1,075,000	1,075,000	51

APPENDIX 2

SPECIAL MAINTENANCE PROGRAMME 2003-2004
Gosport		Estimate	Start	Finish
Footway/Kerbing -Principal Roads
Forton Road	South side Bedford Street to Anns Hill Road	6,400	Complete
Fareham Road	West side - bus stop adjacent Fraser Road	8,600	Complete
Fareham Road	East side - Hoeford	3,300	Complete
Drainage - Principal Roads
Fareham Road	Near Holbrook	14,000	Nov	Dec
Fareham Road	Near Brockhurst roundabout	15,000	Nov	Dec
Footway/Kerbing
Military Road	East side near footbridge	2,800	Complete
Bury Road	Near Bury Crescent	6,500	Complete
Wootton Road	East side 14 - 72, west side 57 - 65	67,000	Nov	Jan
Sherwood Road	East side	22,000	Complete
Lyndhurst Road	East side	18,000	Complete
Peel Road	Both sides - Grove Avenue to Strathmore Road	21,500	Ongoing
Tichborne Way	Both sides of Tichborne Arch	26,000	Complete
Marine Parade East	North side Woburn Court to Queens Road	5,000	Nov	Nov
Long Drive	49 - 100	27,000	Complete
Additional Footway
Portsmouth Road	North side 56 - 112, 184 - 190	63,000	Nov	Dec
		Estimate	Start	Finish
Tactile Paving
Various locations		14,000	Apr	March
Carriageway Resurfacing
Walton Road	Entire Road	42,000	Complete
St Andrews Road	Rear access 2 - 22	9,000	Complete
Kingston Road	Rear access 31 to Middlecroft Road	22,000	Nov	Nov
Elson Road	Brockhurst roundabout to 21a	38,000	Complete
Rowner Road	Rowner Lane east - 69 Charden Road	93,000	Complete
Group 2 Carriageway Surface Dressing
Mumby Road	Harbour Road to Ferry		Complete
Group 3 Carriageway Surface Dressing
Eastbourne Avenue	Whole length		Complete
Mill Pond Road	Whole length		Complete
Fieldmore Road	Whole length		Complete
Brewers Lane	Whole length		Complete
Dayshes Close	Whole length		Complete
St Lukes Road	Whole length		Complete
Stoners Close	Whole length		Complete
Coulmere Road	Whole length		Complete
Pettycott Crescent	Whole length		Complete
Maple Close	Whole length		Complete
Northcott Close	Whole length		Complete
Tribe Road	Whole length		Complete
Skipper Way	Whole length		Complete
Harcourt Road	Whole length		Complete
Green Lane	Whole length		Complete
Lyndhurst Road	Whole length		Complete
Cheyne Way	Whole length		Complete
Rowan Close	Whole length		Complete
Cherry Close	Whole length		Complete
South Place	Whole length		Complete
Milvil Road	Whole length		Complete
Virginia Park Road	Whole length		Complete
Richmond Road	Whole length		Complete
Shackleton Road	Whole length		Complete
Clanwilliam Road	Whole length		Complete
Tedder Road	Whole length		Complete
Carlyle Road	Whole length		Complete
Rowner Close	Whole length		Complete
Ham Lane	Whole length		Complete
Grange Close	Whole length		Complete
Gregson Avenue	Whole length		Complete
Meadow Walk	Whole length		Complete
Richmond Road Gosport	Whole length		Complete
St Thomas's Road	Whole length		Complete
Fisgard Road	Whole length		Complete
Shaftesbury Road	Whole length		Complete
Selsey Avenue	Whole length		Complete
Camp Road	Whole length		Complete
Footway Surface Dressing
Hastings Avenue	Whole length		Complete
School Road	Whole length		Complete
Selsey Avenue	Whole length		Complete
Worthing Avenue	Whole length		Complete
Bournemouth Avenue	Whole length		Complete
Sedgeley Road	Whole length		Complete
Elson Lane	Whole length		Complete
Exmouth Road	Whole length		Complete
Richard Grove	Whole length		Complete
Wandesford Place	Whole length		Complete
Ham Lane	Whole length		Complete
Stanley Place	Whole length		Complete
Goodwood Close	Whole length		Complete
Goodwood Road	Whole length		Complete
Grove Road	Whole length		Complete
Palmyra Road	Whole length		Complete
Dunkeld Road	Whole length		Complete
Grange Crescent	Whole length		Complete
Northcroft Road	Whole length		Complete
Clyde Road	Whole length		Complete
Virginia Park Road	Whole length		Complete

APPENDIX 3

Developer Funded Road Improvements

Frater Gate traffic signals and junction improvements - supervision (S278)

Gunners Way/Heritage Way Industrial area junction - supervision (S278)

Whites Place Improvements on Frater Road and sewer works for £35,000

new surgery

Ferrol Road/Forton Road/Parham Road development - footway works £8,000

Regeneration of Older Urban Areas

Stoke Road - Peel Road to Elmhurst Road - design and supervision £100,000

Groundworks Trust

Crossways - Mill Pond Road to Forton Road Improvements £30,000

and landscape features