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July – September) Cheshire East Council’s Pothole Pledge Cheshire East Council are happy to make the “pothole pledge” requested by the Department for Transport in return for additional funding being made available for highways maintenance. We pledge that this funding (£1,862,407) will be used solely for the purposes of road maintenance, and that it will be spent as soon as possible – and certainly before March 2015. Work funded from this budget will commence in July 2014 with a programme of tradition patching and resurfacing works across the Borough to help prevent the formation of potholes in the future. Programme of Works (July – September) Road Name Treatment Length (m) Area Alder Avenue Microsurfacing 119 Poynton with Worth Ashmores Lane Patching 8 Alsager Badger Avenue Patching 7 Crewe Baker Street Patching 4 Macclesfield Beech Grove Resurfacing 112 Wilmslow Bell Avenue Patching 3 Sutton Bread Street Patching 3 Macclesfield Brookhouse Road Patching 5 Alsager Cedar Avenue Patching 3 Alsager Cedar Close Microsurfacing 57 Poynton with Worth Cheerbrook Roundabout Resurfacing 571 Nantwich Cherry Tree Avenue Microsurfacing 161 Poynton with Worth Chester Road Resurfacing 330 Macclesfield Chester Street Patching 6 Crewe Chiltern Avenue Patching 12 Macclesfield Church Road Patching 2 Alsager Claremont Road Patching 13 Crewe Clifford Road Patching 10 Macclesfield Close Lane Patching 8 Alsager Cop Meadow Patching 3 Sutton Daisy Bank Crescent Microsurfacing 275 Audlem Delamere Street Patching 6 Crewe Pothole Pledge (July – September 2014) 1 Road Name Treatment Length (m) Area Deva Close Microsurfacing 213 Poynton with Worth Duke Street Patching 5 Macclesfield Dunnocksfold Road Patching 5 Alsager Egerton Road Microsurfacing 370 Wilmslow Elm Drive Patching 10 Crewe Ford Lane Patching 9 Crewe Frank Webb Avenue Resurfacing 801 Crewe The Gables Patching 1 Alsager Garden Street Resurfacing 47 Bollington Gravel Lane Resurfacing 318 Wilmslow Green Street Resurfacing 132 Knutsford Hassall Road Patching 4 Alsager Hazel Drive Microsurfacing 308 Poynton with Worth Henbury Rise Patching 2 Henbury Hightree Drive Patching 5 Henbury Kidderton Lane Resurfacing 789 Brindley Lunt Avenue Patching 13 Crewe Macclesfield Road Microsurfacing 357 Alderley Edge Manor Park North Microsurfacing 451 Knutsford Middlewich Road Resurfacing 268 Sandbach Minshull New Road Patching 6 Crewe Mobberley Road Resurfacing 104 Knutsford Mobberley Road Resurfacing 270 Knutsford Moorhouse Avenue Patching 6 Alsager Palmerston Road Patching 9 Macclesfield Roe Street Patching 5 Macclesfield Salisbury Avenue Patching 1 Crewe Sanuel Street Patching 6 Macclesfield Selworthy Drive Patching 4 Crewe Shaw Drive Microsurfacing 602 Knutsford Sycamore Crescent Patching 21 Macclesfield Symondley Road Patching 9 Sutton Trafford Road Microsurfacing 156 Wilmslow Tunnicliffe Road Patching 3 Sutton Well Lane Patching 3 Alsager Wesley Avenue Patching 7 Alsager Westbrook Drive Patching 9 Macclesfield Wibrahams Way Patching 6 Alsager Wood Street Patching 7 Macclesfield Woodside Resurfacing 274 Knutsford Wycliffe Avenue Resurfacing 122 Wilmslow Current Spend to Date £1,196,583 Pothole Pledge (July – September 2014) 2 .
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