Capital allocation for Easter Ross road projects agreed by Highland Council area committee

THE carve-up of cash being allocated to roads in the Easter Ross area has been agreed by councillors against the backdrop of an ever-mounting to-do list.

Members of Highland Council's Easter Ross area committee this week approved the area’s road capital programme for 2023/24.

However the local allocations capital budget for 2023/24 remains to be established. It will be calculated from the approved capital budget allocation being adjusted for any acceleration or slippage in the previous financial year for each area allocation – and also analysis of the road condition survey results.

As a result, the 2023/24 area capital roads programme is based on the previous year’s Baseline Capital Budget, which the council says "is unlikely to vary significantly from the established budget that will not be determined until early summer".

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As Easter Ross area has a total of 23 per cent of the road length in the former Ross and Cromarty area, this capital programme is based on 23 per cent of the 2023/24 Ross and Cromarty area capital budget. Adjusting for accelerated spend, that amounts to £254,534.

The area capital programme for 2023/24 will include the following priorities:

• Surface dressing of approximately 2900m on the B9165 Fearn to Balmuchy Road

• Overlay of approximately 500m on the C1023 Dingwall to Evanton Back Road

• Approximately 800m of surface dressing on the U1921 Achnagarron Road and 464m of overlay on the same road

• Approximately 383m of surface dressing on the U3889 Shore Road.

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