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Hampshire County Council

East Hampshire Highway and Transport Advisory Panel

16 March 2004

Highway Maintenance Programmes 2003/04 and 2004/05

Report of the Director of Environment

Item 8

Contact: Michael Rolfe, tel: 01730 266411 email: [email protected]

1. Summary

1. This report outlines:

      (i) progress with the 2003/04 Highways Maintenance Programme;

        (ii) details of the 2004/05 Highway Maintenance Budget; and

        (iii) details of the 2004/05 Highways Maintenance Programme.

2. Background

2.1 Members will be aware from previous Panel meetings that 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, 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 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. Progress with the 2003/04 Highways Maintenance Programme

    Revenue Maintenance Programme

3.1 The total allocation for East Hampshire for 2003/04 was £625,000. Progress throughout the year has generally been in line with the spend profile. It is expected that the overall programme will be completed within time and budget constraints. A budget monitoring statement is included within Appendix 1.

    Capital Maintenance Programme

3.2 The total allocation for 2003/04 was £2,219,000. The programme was completed largely as intended until November, but considerable changes had to be made after that time on account of damage caused to our highways by clay shrinkage resulting from the very dry summer. Emergency works started before Christmas and will continue well into the coming financial year, at a number of locations that where the surface cracked, broke up, or simply undulated as the clay sub-soil moved. The schemes postponed will be put back into the 2004/05 programme. A budget monitoring statement is included within Appendix 1.

3.3 A status report detailing progress of all special maintenance, resurfacing and surface dressing is attached as Appendix 2.

4. 2004/05 Highway Maintenance Budget

4.1 The Highway Maintenance budget for 2004/05, approved by the Executive Member for Environment, is £51,461,000. This sum comprises £21,232,000 revenue funding and £30,229,000 funding from the Capital Programme provision. This includes an additional £3.5million to help address the backlog within highway maintenance programmes.

4.2 The revenue budget allocation for 2004/05 has been increased over 2003/04 in order to ensure levels of safety on the highway network are maintained.

4.3 The capital budget allocation has been increased compared with 2003/04, which comes on top of a substantial increase from 2002/03. Central Government funding achieved through the Local Transport Plan (LTP) process has increased and locally resourced capital funding has also been enhanced. This increased allocation for planned maintenance has provided the opportunity for continued funding of the more vulnerable areas of the network, essentially urban footways and rural unclassified roads.

4.4 Urban footways are again being targeted to maintain accessibility and improve standards in the heavily used areas, reducing the potential for claims. The rural unclassified road network was severely damaged as a result of the flooding in 2000/01 and requires a sustained, enhanced level of funding to recover. The extremely dry conditions of last summer have made this problem worse, as clay shrinkage has affected many roads in the District.

4.5 Despite this additional funding the need, based on Highway Assessment Maintenance Priorities (HAMP) intervention levels, has risen again this year. It is envisaged that this increased level of funding will halt the deterioration of the network, but needs to be sustained in order to achieve the aims of the Government to eliminate the backlog by 2010.

5. 2004/05 Highway Maintenance Programme

    Revenue Maintenance Programme

5.1 As described above, the revenue maintenance programme funds three main areas of highway maintenance:

      (i) reactionary minor repair works on the road and footway network;

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

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

5.2 The total allocation for East Hampshire in 2004/05 is £653,000. A detailed breakdown of the budget allocations for 2004/05 is set out in Appendix 3.

5.3 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; and

    (iv) ordinary bridge maintenance.

    Capital Maintenance Programme

5.4 The funding allocation for the capital maintenance programme is based on the HAMP rating system and will reflect the agreed intervention levels. The HAMP rating intervention level directs funding to those maintenance schemes displaying a higher `maintenance need'. Details of the 2004/05 allocations are set out in Appendix 3.

5.5 Planned structural maintenance repairs undertaken through the capital maintenance programme includes surface dressing, special maintenance and resurfacing schemes. A provisional list of schemes under each of these headings for 2004/05 is attached as Appendix 4.

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

Recommendation

That this report be noted.

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background papers

The following documents disclose facts or matters on which this report, or an important part of it, is based and has been relied upon to a material extent in the preparation of this report.

NB the list excludes:

1.

Published works.

2.

Documents which disclose exempt or confidential information as defined in the Act.

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APPENDIX 1

HAMPSHIRE HIGHWAYS EAST HAMPSHIRE

Revenue Budget 2003/04

Routine Maintenance (carriageway, footway repairs)

£273,000

Gully Cleansing

£26,000

District Managed Grass

£94,000

Aids to Movement (lines and signs)

£54,000

Environmental (grass, trees, shrubs)

£82,000

Weed Control

£36,000

Hazard Clearance

£60,000

Total:

£625,000

Capital Budget 2003/04 Principal Roads

Principal Roads Routine Structural Repairs

£42,000

Principal Roads Special Maintenance

£126,000

Principal Roads Resurfacing

£0

Total:

£168,000

Capital Budget 2003/04 Non Principal Roads

Non Principal Roads Routine Structural Repairs

£312,000

Non Principal Roads Special Maintenance

£757,000

Non Principal Roads Resurfacing

Footway Maintenance

Haunching, Resurfacing, Recycling

£577,000

£98,000

£300,000

Non Principal Roads Tactile Paving Crossing Points

£7,000

Total:

£2,051,000

Total Maintenance Budget Allocation East Hampshire

£2,844,000

APPENDIX 2

2003 - 2004 Works Programme

MAIN SPECIAL MAINTENANCE PROGRAMME

Downhouse Road, Clanfield

edge repairs

£58,000

Complete

The Causeway, Petersfield B2070

edge repairs

£28,000

Complete

High Cross Lane, Froxfield

edge repairs

£66,000

Complete

Stodham Lane, Liss

edge repairs

£30,000

underway

Kimbers, Petersfield

footway

£32,000

Complete

Plain Farm Lane, East Tisted

edge repairs

£38,000

Complete

Pruetts Lane, Liss

edge repairs

£23,000

Complete

Standford Lane, Standford

footway

£12,000

Complete

Swelling Hill, Ropley

edge repairs

£15,000

underway

Forest Road, Liss

edge repairs

£43,000

Complete

Five Ash Road, Medstead

edge repairs

£54,000

Complete

Wishanger Lane, Headley

edge repairs

£7,000

Complete

Laydean Farm Lane, Froxfield

edge repairs

£6,000

Complete

Frogmore Lane, Horndean

edge repairs

£32,000

Complete

Reeds Lane, Liss

edge repairs

postponed

Tactile paving

footways

cancelled

Church Road, Steep

edge repairs

£13,000

Complete

Conford Ford

c/way at ford

postponed

Anstey Road, Alton

drainage

postponed

The Vaughans, Alton

steps repair

£14,000

Complete

Park Street/Saville Crescent, Bordon

footway

£9,000

Complete

Liss Forest, Liss

footway

£34,000

Complete

RESURFACING PROGRAMME

Coombe Wood Lane, East Meon

   

postponed

Ashford Lane, Steep

 

£12,000

Complete

Frogmore, East Meon

 

£28,000

Complete

Crossways Lane, Grayshott

   

postponed

Coombe Lane, East Meon

 

£74,000

Complete

Gid Lane, Upper Froyle

 

£17,000

Complete

Glebe Fields, Bentworth

 

£7,000

Complete

Hammer Lane, Churt

 

£44,000

Complete

Yarnhams Farm Lane, Upper Froyle

 

£25,000

Complete

Burgh Hill, Passfield

 

£11,000

Complete

Upper Soldridge Lane, Medstead

 

£23,000

Complete

School Lane, Grayshott

 

£14,000

Complete

Beech Hanger Road, Grayshott

 

£17,000

Complete

Bradshott Lane, Selborne

 

£41,000

Complete

Smugglers Lane, Ropley

 

£34,000

Complete

Butts Road, Alton

 

£44,000

Complete

High Street, Alton

 

£67,000

Complete

C18 Barnetside Cottages

 

£36,000

Complete

CAPITAL SPECIAL MAINTENANCE PROGRAMME

A31 Winchester Road, Four Marks

drainage

postponed

A32 Fareham Road, Tisted

edge repairs

postponed

A32 Fareham Road, Tisted

drainage

 

postponed

A31 Farnham Road, Bentley

drainage

 

postponed

A31 Winchester Road, Ropley

drainage

 

postponed

CAPITAL RESURFACING PROGRAMME

A31 Farnham Road, Bentley

CWY/RS

postponed

A31 Winchester Road, Ropley

CWY RS

postponed

A272 London Road, Sheet

CWY RS

postponed

A3 London Road, Horndean

CWY RS

£51,000

Complete

SPECIAL (RECYCLING) HAUNCH REPAIR PROGRAMME

Laydean Farm Lane, Froxfield

carriageway

£34,000

Complete *

Old Down Farm, Froxfield

carriageway

£32,000

Complete *

Isington Road, Binsted

carriageway

£15,000

Complete *

Froyle Mill Lane, Binsted

carriageway

£64,000

Complete *

Cottage Lane, Oakshott

carriageway

£29,000

Complete *

Barefoots Lane, Hawkley

carriageway

£21,000

Complete *

London Road, Clanfield

carriageway

£44,000

Complete *

Sotherington Lane, Blackmoor

carriageway

£84,000

Complete *

Gentles Lane, Headley

carriageway

total:

£44,000

_______

£367,000

Complete *

ADDITIONAL FOOTWAY PROGRAMME

Meadowlands, Rowlands Castle

footway

£11,000

Complete *

Dunsells Lane, Ropley

footway

£16,000

Complete *

London Road, Clanfield

footway

£38,000

Complete *

High Street, Alton

footway

total:

£30,000

_______

£95,000

Postponed *

EMERGENCY WORKS AT CLAY HEAVE SITES

Sotherington Lane, Blackmoor

£9,000

underway

Snailing Lane, Greatham

£5,000

underway

Sickles Lane, Kingsley

£35,000

underway

Wheatley Lane, Kingsley

£1,000

underway

The Straights, Kingsley

£15,000

underway

Isington Lane, Kingsley

£14,000

underway

B3004 Kingsley

£9,000

underway

Perrylands, Kingsley

£4,000

underway

Crondall Lane, Bentley

£4,000

underway

Old Farm Lane, Bentley

£3,000

underway

B2149 Rowlands Castle

£11,000

underway

Briarfield Gardens, Horndean

£1,000

underway

Murray Road, Horndean

£3,000

underway

Castle Road, Rowlands Castle

total:

£4,000

_______

£118,000

underway

SURFACE DRESSING HIGH PERFORMANCE - GROUP 2

Farnham Road, Alton A31

38000m2

complete

Basingstoke Road, Alton A339

23000m2

complete

Beech Hill, Headley Down B3002

5000m2

complete

Fareham Road at West Meon Hut A32

89000m2

complete

Fullers Vale, Headley B3002

7000m2

complete

High Cross Lane, Froxfield C120

9000m2

complete

London Road, Sheet B2070

32000m2

complete

Rake Road, Liss C86

5000m2

complete

Soak Hill, Four Marks A31

7000m2

complete

Basingstoke Road, Alton B3349

5000m2

complete

Lyeway Lane, Four Marks C189

12000m2

complete

River Hill, Binsted C84

8000m2

complete

Headley Road, Passfield B3004

12000m2

complete

Selborne Road, Empshott B3006

10000m2

complete

SURFACE DRESSING MINOR ROADS - GROUP 3

Wield Road, Medstead C138

11000m2

complete

Wallops Wood Road, Wield U227

3000m2

complete

APPENDIX 3

2004/05 Provisional Funding Allocation

Revenue Budget

 

2004/05

Main Allocation

 

Routine Maintenance (carriageway, footway repairs)

 

£336,000

 

Gully Cleansing

 

£30,000

 

District Grass Cutting

 

£104,000

 

Aids to Movement (lines and signs)

 

£65,000

 

Environmental (grass, trees, shrubs)

 

£62,000

 

Weed Control

 

£36,000

 

Hazard Clearance

 

£20,000

 

Total:

 

£653,000

 

Capital Budget - Principal Roads

Principal Roads Routine Structural Repairs

£45,000

Principal Roads Special Maintenance

£343,000

Principal Roads Resurfacing

£46,000

Total:

£434,000

Capital Budget - Non-Principal Roads

Non-Principal Roads Routine Structural Repairs

£383,000

Non-Principal Roads Special Maintenance

Non-Principal Roads Resurfacing

£181,000

£649,000

Non-Principal Roads Tactile Paving Crossing Points

£7,000

Total:

£1,220,000

Other Budgets

Non-Principal Roads Rural Lanes

Total:

£248,000

£248,000

Total Maintenance Budget Allocation East Hampshire

£2,555,000

APPENDIX 4

2004 - 2005 PROVISIONAL SPECIAL MAINTENANCE

RESURFACING AND SURFACE DRESSING PROGRAMME

Special maintenance schemes funded from the additional £3.5 million have an `*' in the `cost' column

NON-PRINCIPAL SPECIAL MAINTENANCE - MAIN PROGRAMME

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 2004 - 05

         
                 

EAST HAMPSHIRE NPSM £181,000

           
                 

SCHOOL LANE, SHEET

 

footway resurfacing and kerbing

£30,000

139

   

OLD ODHIAM ROAD, ALTON

 

footway resurfacing

£20,000

138

   

LONDON ROAD, ADHURST

 

drainage

£33,000

113

   

HILLBROW ROAD ,LISS

   

drainage

£98,000

81

   
                 
                 
         

£181,000

     
                 
                 

EAST HAMPSHIRE HAUNCH/RECYCLING £247,500

(Due to additional funding)

   
                 

ALTON ROAD, FROXFIELD

 

HAUNCH

£20,000 *

87

   

PROSPECT LANE, ROWLANDS CASTLE

HAUNCH

£60,000 *

84

   

BIGHTON HILL, ROPLEY

 

HAUNCH

£26,000 *

70

END ROLLING PROGRAMME

THE CAUSEWAY SERVICE ROAD

 

HAUNCH

£52,000 *

136

   

HAWKLEY ROAD, HAWKLEY

 

HAUNCH

£45,000 *

110

   

CHASE ROAD, LINDFORD

 

HAUNCH

£44,500 *

100

   
                 
         

£247,500

Total

   
                 
                 

EAST HAMPSHIRE NPRS £648,500

           
                 

BULLS COPSE LANE, HORNDEAN

   

£28,000

166

   

GARAGE COTTAGES, PETERSFIELD

 

£9,000

144

   

HURLANDS LANE, HEADLEY

   

£30,000

133

   

TANKERDALE LANE, LISS

   

£25,000

132

   

WILLOW ROAD, LISS

     

£34,000

120

   

CAKERSTREAM, ALTON

   

£28,000

107

   

STANCOMBE LANE, SHALDEN

   

£28,000

97

   

WHITMORE VALE, GRAYSHOTT

   

£27,000

96

   

BIGHTON HILL, ROPLEY

   

£36,000

95

   

SANDY LANE, BRAMSHOTT

   

£45,000

89

   

ANSTEY MILL LANE, ALTON

   

£25,000

88

   

LIPSCOMBE RISE, ALTON

   

£21,000

88

   

BOROUGH ROAD, PETERSFIELD

 

£23,000

88

   

BEDFORD ROAD, PETERSFIELD

 

£172,000

87

   

STATION ROAD, PETERSFIELD

   

£46,000

87

   

HEWSHOTT LANE, BRAMSHOTT

 

£30,000

83

   

BRADSHOTT LANE, SELBORNE

   

£41,500

81

   
                 
         

£648,500

     
                 

EAST HAMPSHIRE FOOTWAY £50,000

         
                 

BULLS COPSE LANE, HORNDEAN

 

FWY

£40,000

     

IVY ORCHARD

   

FWY

£10,000

     
                 
         

£50,000

     
                 
                 

EAST HAMPSHIRE PRINCIPAL ROADS SM £343,000

       
                 

A272 MIDHURST ROAD, STEEP

 

DRAIN

£22,000

248

   

A32 FAREHAM ROAD EAST TISTED

 

DRAIN

£32,500

225

   

A339 BASINGSTOKE ROAD, ALTON

FWY

£54,000

168

   

A352 CAMP ROAD, BORDON

 

HAUNCH

£154,500

150

   

A339 WHITEDOWN ROAD, ALTON

 

FWY

£14,000

133

   

A31 WINCHESTER ROAD, FOURMARKS

FWY

£32,000

125

   

A31 FARNHAM ROAD, BENTLEY

 

FWY

£15,000

89

   

A31 WINCHESTER ROAD, ROPLEY

 

FWY

£19,000

74

   
                 
         

£343,000

     
                 
                 

EAST HAMPSHIRE PRINCIPAL ROADS RS £46,000

       
                 

A33 FARNHAM ROAD, BENTLEY

 

RS

£22,000

193

   

A31 WINCHESTER ROAD, ROPLEY

 

RS

£24,000

142

   
                 
         

£46,000

     

SURFACE DRESSING HIGH PERFORMANCE - GROUP 2

Road

From

To

    B3349 New Odiham Road, Alton

A339 Basingstoke Road junction

Golden Pot crossroads

    B2149 Durrants Road, Rowlands Castle

Whichers Gate Road junction

Havant district boundary

SURFACE DRESSING MINOR ROADS - GROUP 3

Road

From

To

U227 Upper Soldridge Road, Medsted

U227 Stancombe Lane, Medsted

junction. with Stancombe Lane

junction with Paice Lane

junction. with Grosvenor Road

junction. Upper Soldridge Road

U228 Court Lane, Ropley

junction with Gilbert Street

junction with Brislands Lane

U229 Woodfields, Kingsley

junction with B3004

end of cul-de-sac

SURFACE DRESSING - FOOTWAYS

Road

   

programme yet to be determined