Mitchell Labiak
Business Reporter, BBC News
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The government has expressed an ultimatum to local authorities, asking them to show how they improve the roads.
Local authorities in England must show how they improve the roads and attack the government to describe as a “plague of the nests-of-poule” or lose millions of funding books.
The Ministry of Transport said that the advice will begin to obtain their share of a road maintenance pot of 1.6 billion pounds sterling in mid-April, including 500 million pounds additional.
However, to obtain all additional funding, the DFT said that the English local authorities should publish annual reports detailing progress on the fixing of poule nests, with a quarter of the funding retained to those who do not.
The Association of Local Governments has said that the government should focus on preventive measures rather than “reactive” reparation, which is more expensive.
All eligible local authorities will receive 75% of the 500 million additional pounds promised in the last fall budget. The remaining 25% could be retained.
The funding which is selected will be redistributed to the councils which turned out to have made the required progress.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that broken roads “risk not only lives, but also cost families of workers, drivers and businesses – if not thousands of books – in preventable vehicle repairs.”
He added that advice has the money to continue the work.
According to RAC data, there are six nests-of-poule for each road mile in England and Wales.
The DFT said that the progress of road maintenance advice should be published at the end of June and say how much they spend, how many hen nests they have filled, how they minimize the disturbances on road works and what are their long -term road maintenance plans.
At the end of October, advice must also demonstrate that local communities have been consulted on how reparations should take place.
He added that the advice which “does not meet these strict conditions” will see 25% of the funded financing.
Politics will only apply to English councils that the financing of local Scottish, Welsh and North-Irish authorities is a deconvanting question.
During the electoral campaign, work has undertaken to repair up to one million hen nests per year in England.
‘Preventive measures’
The LGA said that additional government funding will help start to “attack the constantly growing backlog of local road repairs” which amounts to 17 billion pounds sterling and “could take more than a decade to repair”.
He added: “The advice already spend more than what they receive from the central government to fight against the poule nests and repair our roads.
“However, it is in the interests of everyone to ensure that public money is well spent.
The Secretary in the Shadow of Transports Gareth Bacon described the government’s announcement as a “plastering pothole”.
He said: “Workers like to talk about a big game on repairing roads, but they are more interested in making the headlines.”
The spokesperson for liberal transport of democrats Paul Kohler called for a “more sustainable approach” of repairs, saying that the repair of hen nests was welcome but did not do much to tackle a “ruined road infrastructure”.
