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Highways Maintenance Progress Update: April - June 2015 South Ribble Summary: Progress against delivery of the Capital Programme for South Ribble in the first quarter of 2015/16 Head of Service Policy, Information and Commissioning (Live Well): Joanne Reed Q1 :[email protected] : 01772 530897 Highways Maintenance Capital Programme Update Cross Borough Link Road and Street Maintenance All of the 15 capital schemes, due for delivery in quarter 1, have either been The developer is currently progressing with the completed, or are progressing as planned, and are detailed below. design for the Link Road which will connect Leyland Road to the A6 at Hennel Lane using The Cawsey and Carwood Road. On the 12th Progress as Expected August South Ribble Planning Committee Bridges agreed support of the internal layout of the Malt Kiln Farm footbridge (Leyland South West) - a study to determine a plan site; thus providing progression of the delivery for repairs to river scour at the footbridge is currently ongoing. Progress of the of the road. It is hoped that some construction scheme will be reported in quarter 2 2015/16. will start in early 2016. Between April and June 2015/16, a total of 1160 highway defects were Footways identified by regular Highway Safety Inspections (HSI) or reported by Footway improvement works have been completed in the following areas: Samlesbury Enterprise Zone the public in South Ribble. 1160 (100%) of these defects were repaired o Fitchfield (Penwortham South) Located at BAE Systems' Samlesbury site within 20 working days between April to June. o Walton Park Estate (Penwortham South) between the A59 and A677, the Samlesbury Enterprise Zone was approved by Government Local Priorities Response Fund in 2012 and will form a centre of excellence for Community Rail Partnership Programme Improvement (CRP) Longmeanygate Crossing (Leyland South West) - construction of the toucan The East Lancashire CRP has continued its regular dialogue with the the aerospace and advanced manufacturing crossing has been completed and is in full operation. A road safety audit has sectors, generating wealth-creating benefits three Northern bidders. Plans are being developed with South Ribble also just been carried out and is currently being reviewed to ensure the for the county and wider region. Borough Council and Northern Rail for more improvement works at crossing is working as required. Bamber Bridge station and the possible launch of a station partnership The county council is currently constructing a group. A, B and C Roads new junction to access the Enterprise Zone Surface dressing work has been completed in the following areas: from the A59 which is due to be completed by o Bee Lane from Leyland Road to Lords Lane (Penwortham South) September 2015. Following this, work to A582 South Ribble Western Distributor o Cocker Lane from Birchwood to the adoption point (Leyland South West) construct a new junction off the A677 Works are on target for the completion of Golden Way South in o Marsh Lane from Greystones to the end (South Ribble Rural West) providing a southern access to the site will November 2015 and the Stanifield Lane roundabout in August 2015. o commence in September 2015 with Full length of Old Pope Lane (South Ribble Rural West) Work will commence on the 'Tank' roundabout improvement in o Todd Lane North from Brownedge Road to Lyndale Avenue (Penwortham completion of the full spine road which links September 2015 and will be ongoing for 12 months and will also include South) the two junctions to be completed during the construction of the spine road into the Croston Road North housing Urban Unclassified 2017. In August 2015, the county council and site. BAE held an information drop-in session at Surface dressing work has been completed in the following areas in Mellor Village Hall to update local residents Penwortham North: Cuerden Strategic Investment Site and interested parties on the programme of The developer's representative is still in discussions with the county o Belgrave Avenue from house number 19 to Broad Oak Lane works. council and the site's client on the section of land that is in LCC control. o Broad Oak Lane from Cop Lane to Blackthorn Drive Simultaneously with the above, the first two Officers are aware that the client is reviewing the viability of the site to o Kingsway in Penwortham from Priory Lane to Queensway major developments will commence ensure that the development as anticipated can be delivered. Further Rural Unclassified construction in September / October 2015 progress will be provide in quarter 2 2015/16. Surface dressing work has been completed in the following areas: which will be a new logistics facility and a o Full length of Marsh Lane in Longton (Farington) regional advanced manufacturing training Penwortham Bypass o Full length of Old Pope Lane in Whitestake (South Ribble Rural West) centre, both of which will be completed by late Work is progressing with environmental and ecological surveys. A o Full length of Royalty Lane (South Ribble Rural West) 2016. planning application is due to be submitted in July 2016. = Progress as expected = Progress not as expected = Issues identified = Information .