COUNTY highways chiefs have revealed the 88 road resurfacing schemes they plan to carry out over the next year.

And while Hyndburn will host seven projects, Pendle and Rossendale four apiece, Ribble Valley will see just two and Burnley only one.

Wyre will get 24 such schemes, Lancaster, Fylde and South Ribble 10 each and West Lancs nine.

The county council's cabinet has approved a provisional list of projects – totalling - more than 100 individual routes – which will see it spend £15.2m on maintaining and upgrading road surfaces across its patch.

The works form part of County Hall’s broader £32.4m highways maintenance grant from the government for 2024/25, from which £5.6m has also been reserved for bridge repairs, as well as allocations for the upkeep of other infrastructure like streetlamps and traffic lights.

The total pot has this year been bolstered by Lancashire’s £3.6m share of additional highways cash the government has made available nationwide from the money saved by scrapping the northern leg of the HS2 high-speed rail link to Manchester.  That has been added to the £28.8m which the county is once again expected to receive from Whitehall for looking after local roads.

Of the extra funding, the county council has put half of it – £1.8m – into its ‘localised deterioration fund’ to respond to carriageway condition issues raised by councillors.

Councillors were warned Lancashire is still millions of pounds short of the level of funding needed to maintain its roads to a given standard.

A report noted the minimum amount required to manage highways and related infrastructure “within a reasonable level of risk” is estimated to be between £41.7m and £45.2m.  To achieve a “sustainable investment level”, even more cash would be needed, of between £51.8m and £56.2m – the upper limit being nearly £24m in excess of what Lancashire actually has at its disposal.

The report also described there being “an effective reduction in funding available” this year because of “current inflationary pressures”.

Meanwhile, the authority expects to spend £10m on as-yet-unknown “structural defects” – aka potholes – that appear during the course of the year  The budget for those reactive repairs includes an earmarked £2m from the £32m highways maintenance grant.

But the remaining £8m is in addition to that tally and could either come from other funding within the authority’s capital and revenue budgets, or as “a last resort”, borrowing, according to the cabinet report.

Hyndburn's schemes include the B6232 Elton Road in Oswaldtwistle, Wilpshire Road in Great Harwood and Clayton-le-Moors, Knowles Street in Rishton, Prospect Street in Great Harwood and Accrington's Avenue Parade. And in Ribble Valley George Street in Clitheroe and Goosnargh Lane are on the list.

For Pendle, Green End Avenue in Earby, Rothesay Road in Brierfield, Barnoldswick's Coates Lane and Delves Lane, Southfield, will be treated.

Across Rossendale, Whitworth's The Hedgerows and Longacres Drive, Parkinson Street, Haslingden, and Queensway, Newchurch, are in line for upgrades.

Burnley's only scheme is on Hillingdon Road.