North Lincolnshire: £1.5m funding for roads from HS2 pot

Junction 4 of the M180 roundabout will benefit from the funding

Diverted funds from HS2 will pay for nearly £1.5m of resurfacing work on North Lincolnshire roads.

North Lincolnshire Council said the A15, A1077 and M180 are included in government funding.

The money comes following the scrapping of part of the planned HS2 rail line from Birmingham to Manchester.

The Department for Transport released the money from a £991m fund for the wider Yorkshire and Humber region.

Additional funds will also go towards maintaining roads in North East Lincolnshire.

Resurfacing and surface dressing in Broughton would be the most expensive part of the scheme, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Roads listed for improvement:

• High Street, Ermine Street, Appleby Lane - Broughton

• A15/A1077 - Barton

• Junction 4 of the M180 roundabout

• West End and Wroot Road - Wroot

• Saxby Road/B1204

• Epworth Road - Epworth/Sandtoft

• Stather Road - Flixborough

• Falklands Way - Barton

The money set aside for the roads is separate to an almost £120m pot of scrapped HS2 funds awarded to both North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire earlier this year for local transport schemes.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said: "We're on the side of drivers, which is why this Government is getting on with delivering our plan to invest £991m in Yorkshire and the Humber.

"It is part of the biggest ever funding increase for local road improvements, made possible by reallocated HS2 funding."

North East Lincolshire will get £630,000 for road maintenance from the discarded HS2 money.