Highways Maintenance Capital Programme Update: July - September 2015 West Progress against delivery of the Capital Programme for in the second quarter of 2015/16 Head of Service Policy, Information and Commissioning (Live Well): Joanne Reed :[email protected] : 01772 530897 Q2

Highways Maintenance Capital Programme Update Urban Unclassified Road and Street Maintenance 30 out of 31 capital schemes, due for delivery in quarter 2, have either been  Carriageway resurfacing works have been completed completed, or are progressing as planned, and are detailed below. For details of in the following locations: the remaining scheme please see the 'Progress not as expected' section. o Full length of Abrams Fold (West Lancashire North) o Gardiners Place from the Junction Gladden Place Progress As Expected ( West)

A, B and C Roads Rural Unclassified  Chequer Lane from Ravenhead Way to house number 103 (Skelmersdale  Jacksons Common Lane from Southport Road to the East) - carriageway resurfacing work has been completed. end (West Lancashire West) - carriageway overlay  Surface dressing works have been completed in the following locations: work has been completed.  o Ben Lane from Lancaster Lane to Moss Lane (West Lancashire South) Dark Lane/Blythe Lane/Hobcross Lane from Greetby o Chorley Road to Coach Road Slack House (West Lancashire East) Hill to Hall Lane (West Lancashire East) - surface

o Gorsuch Lane/Delph Lane/Mairscough Lane from the Sefton boundary to dressing work has been completed. Between April and September 2015/16, a total of 2709 highway Rosemary Lane (West Lancashire South) Bridges defects were identified by regular Highway Safety Inspections (HSI) or o Hunters Lane from the A570 to the Sefton boundary (West Lancashire North)  New Lane Bridge (West Lancashire North) – the reported by the public in West Lancashire. o Meadow Lane from Blackgate Lane to Legh Lane (West Lancashire East) assessment of the bridge has been completed and no 2607 (96%) of these defects were repaired within 20 working days o Old Moss Lane from Bleak Lane to Prescott Bridge (West Lancashire South) works are required to strengthen the structure as o Red Cat Lane/Fish Lane/Tarlscough Lane from Road to Scarth Hill Lane between April to September. originally anticipated. Some minor maintenance (West Lancashire West) works to the railings is required and will be carried out o Renacres Lane from the A59 to the B5246 (West Lancashire South) during quarter 3 2015/16. Community Rail Partnership (CRP) Programme Improvement o Southport Road from New Cut Lane to Heathey Lane (West Lancashire West) The West Lancashire CRP plans to reissue two station leaflets Flood Risk Management and Drainage o Square House Lane from Bridge to Snape Green (West Lancashire following funding obtained from Merseytravel to promote the line North)  Investigative works have been completed as and services. programmed; and the resulting schemes detailed o Full length of Straight Up Lane (West Lancashire North) A new station partnership is also being set up at Junction below are due to for quarters 3 and 4 in 2015/16: o School Lane in Burscough and Carr Lane in Lathom from Wyke Lane to New station. Lane (West Lancashire West/East) o Small Lane North in (West Lancashire South) – o Woodmoss Lane - various sections from house number 45 to Wyke Cop Road works to provide a new surface water outfall Bus Station Refurbishment o Asmall Lane in Scarisbrick (West Lancashire West) – (West Lancashire West) A Steering Group has now been established to oversee the works to upgrade the surface water system o Wyke Cop Road from Pool Hey Lane to Woodmoss Lane (West Lancashire implementation of the West Lancashire Highways and Transport o Plex Lane in Halsall (West Lancashire South) – works West) Masterplan , of which this scheme is a proposal. The Steering Group is to renew the drainage culvert o Dark Lane/Blythe Lane/Hobcross Lane from Greetby Hill to Hall Lane (West scheduled to meet in December 2015. Lancashire East) o Southport Road in Scarisbrick (West Lancashire West) - works to upgrade the surface water system Skelmersdale Rail Link Feasibility Study

Footways Progress Not As Expected The first phase of engineering and the outline of the business case has  Footway resurfacing works have been completed in the following areas of been completed. Discussions with Merseytravel and Network Rail are Skelmersdale West: Road Safety still on-going regarding the next phase of the works. o Templemartin from house numbers 1 to 5  Westgate/Railway Road Roundabout (Skelmersdale o Uppingham Road from the rear of flat number 15a to house number 42 on West) – due to the increased cost of providing an off Ormskirk Town Centre road cycle path, the scope of works will be reduced to Whitham This scheme was substantially complete d at the end of Aug ust 2015. o include a link to the industrial estate and extension of Waverley from the rear of house number 11 to house number 18 on Westgate Additional works are now required and will include tree planting and o Full length of Wilcove the footway on Westgate. The designs and the installation of street furniture. There are also issues with the programming of the scheme are ongoing with a  (Skelmersdale East) - Installation of the highway fencing has been surface water drainage system causing a slipping hazard which will further updated expected in quarter 3 2015/16. completed. require fu rther remedial works.

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