Highway Network Management
In its role as the Highway Authority, Bedford Borough
Council is responsible for the management, maintenance and
improvement of the non-trunk highway network in the Borough. The
Borough Council develops annual programmes for capital structural
maintenance programmes in accordance with the Council's 'Highways
Maintenance Plan', the principles of which are:
· To deliver the statutory obligations of the
Authority
· To be responsive to the needs of users and the
community
· To contribute to effective highway asset management
and maintain the asset value
· To support effective delivery of the statutory
network management duty
· To support and add value to local transport
objectives
· To support and add value to wider corporate policy
objectives
Government Bids and Funding
Date added
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Description
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Appendix
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Nov 17
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TRANSPORTING BEDFORD 2020
To see all information relating to this
project please follow the link above.
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Apr 17
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NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY INVESTMENT
FUND
In April 2017 the Council was awarded £671,000
from the Department for Transports Productivity Investment fund.
The National Productivity Investment fund is designed to reduce
congestion at key locations, upgrade or improve the maintenance of
local highways assets to support the local economy. The
Council will spend our allocation of the fund on a number of
highways schemes such as :
Safety Improvements on the A6 at Souldrop.
Refurbishing the traffic signals at Bromham
Rd/Hasset St
Bromham Rd/Union St Signal refurbishment
Castle Lane Resurfacing / Shared surfacing
scheme
A Flood warning System to automatically
provide information of road closures at river bridges in times of
flooding.
A traffic management scheme in Lurke
Street
Improvements to anti skid surfacing at
pedestrian crossings around the Borough
Upgrades to a number of cycle and pedestrian
crossings across the Borough.
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Oct 14
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Bedford Borough Council were awarded of
£511,618 in 2014/15 to carry out additional carriageway repairs on
its highways network. Our first quarterly statement showing how
this grant money is being spent is shown in the Appendix
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Appendix
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May 14
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In the 2014 Budget statement, the Government announced the
creation of a Pothole Fund (“the Fund”) worth £200 million, with
£168 million being made available to highway authorities in England
to help repair damage to the local road network. The funding is
available in the 2014/15 financial year. Bedford Borough Council
has submitted a bid for funding. Details of the bid document are
shown in the Appendix.
The document has been published on our website as part of
the Government’s commitment to greater openness in the public
sector under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Any queries about
the bid can be made via the Bedford Borough Council Highways
Helpdesk on 01234 718003 or at Highways.helpesk@bedford.gov.uk
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Appendix
Statement -
Apr 2015
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Mar 14
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In December 2012 the Dft announced in their Autumn
Statement that additional Highways Maintenance Funding will be
allocated to Local Authorities in 2013/14 and 2014/15.
Bedford Borough Council was awarded additional funding for 2013/14
of £503k.
In accordance with the requirements of the grant the additional
funds were used to extend the Councils programme of resurfacing
works and enabled us to carry out much needed
resurfacing works on Goldington Road in Bedford
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Carriageway and Footway Programme
of Works
The outline programme of maintenance schemes for
this year can be viewed by clicking each link
below:
2018 to 2019
2018-2019
Carriageway Works
2018-2019
Drainage Works
2018-2019
Footway Works
2018-2019
Street Lighting
2018-2019
Structures
2017 to 2018
2017-2018
Carriageway Works (pdf 31kb)
2017-2018
Additional £1 Million for Carriageway Works (18kb)
2017-2018
Drainage Works (pdf 21kb)
2017-2018
Footway Works (pdf 20kb)
2017-2018
Structures (pdf 16kb)
The programme of works for Structural Maintenance
Schemes has the key objective to deliver a programme that was based
on the emerging principles of the Transport Asset Management Plan,
which is intended to deliver improvements in National Indicator
performance. The programme also tries to meet the needs of the
local community by addressing issues highlighted by elected Members
and Parish Councils.
The programme has been compiled based on
inspections carried out through the year and suggestions made by
local Councillors and Parish Councils. The Council has had to
evaluate these requests against the condition of the road,
the benefits to residents and local economy as well as
carrying out works that ease the burden of small scale repair works
facing the Council.
In addition to these carriageway and footway
repairs the Council will also, maintaining highways bridges,
carrying out works to improve highway drainage and prevent flooding
and carrying out street lighting improvements. Details of
street lighting works can be found by clicking the link below:
Street Lighting
- LED Replacement Programme
Bedford Borough Council’s policy when carrying out
reconstruction and resurfacing works to footways and footpaths
outside of the defined town centre and conservation area, is to
replace areas constructed with a paving slab finish with asphalt
material.
A report on the background and process of developing
the programme of works can be found here
http://www.councillorsupport.bedford.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=377&MId=919&Ver=4
For Information on other schemes, such as traffic
management schemes, pedestrian crossings, street lighting, drainage
and structures work please contact the Highways Team on
01234 718003 or
https://highwaysreporting.bedford.gov.uk/
For up to date information on road works in Bedford
and the surrounding areas please click the link http://roadworks.org
ARCHIVED
2015/2016 -
Highways Maintenance Programme
2014-2015 -
Highways Maintenance Programme
2013-2014 -
Highways Maintenance Programme
2012-2013 -
Highways Maintenance Programme
2011-2012 -
Highways Maintenance Programme
Information correct as of 26/04/2018