Roads and pavements to be repaired with £19m fund

Coventry City Council said it would repair roads on a "worst first basis"

A funding package of more than £19m to improve Coventry’s worst roads and pavements has been given the go ahead.

The money, £19.249m in total, will be used to pay for more than 160 projects in the city, which include repairing potholes and improving flood protection.

Funds were approved by Coventry City Council during a meeting of its Cabinet on Tuesday.

The authority said it would carry out the work to repair roads on a “worst first basis”, with all projects scheduled to be finished by March 2025.

Councillor Patricia Hetherton, Cabinet member for city services, said she believed residents would be pleased with the investment.

“The additional funding is a welcome boost and we will target it to help provide reliable transport routes that make it as easy as possible, especially for vulnerable people, to continue getting out and about in their local areas,” she added.

The authority said the work would also help prepare the city’s road network for the Coventry Very Light Rail scheme, all-electric buses and more fully-segregated cycle-ways.

Ms Hetherton added: “The programme ties in the council’s wider aims to tackle climate change by improving traffic flow, reducing congestion and supporting the decarbonisation of the transport system.”