DEVON County Council has announced a list of roads which will be repaired using the £1.95-million of capital funding allocated by government within this financial year’s Pothole Action Fund.

More than 200 repair schemes will be undertaken on approximately 75-miles of road across the county — including in West Devon — using the Pothole Action Fund which the county council received from the Government earlier this year.

From the funding. Hatherleigh and Chagford has been allocated £47,400 and Okehampton Rural has been allocated £33,933.

In the Hatherleigh and Chagford area the work will include patching in Greenslade Lane, North Tawton, Forder Farm Road, Wonson, the high streets, Heath Cross and Norleigh Mill. In the Okehampton Rural area, work will include patching in an unnamed road, Klondyke Road in Okehampton, the road to the Peter Tavy Inn and Cholwell at Dippertown near Lewdown.

The proposed work follows the Department for Transport’s recent announcement that Devon will receive £3.192-million from the Pothole Action Fund in the next financial year.

Each county council division area is receiving at least £14,700 for repairs to ensure roads are repaired right across the county. The final allocations of funding for each area has then been calculated using pothole frequency data to ensure that more funding is directed to areas of most need.

Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council Cabinet member for highway management, said: ‘This programme of work has been drawn up with the help of county councillors who have discussed the schemes with local highways officers so that priority sites are targeted in each area.

‘We appreciate having this additional investment from the Government and we’re ensuring it is used as efficiently as possible to have the biggest impact on our highway network. However, when you consider we have 8,000 miles of road, the largest highway network of any authority in the country, we can only achieve so much with this funding.’

Devon’s £1,952,000 share of the Pothole Action Fund is in addition to £38-million capital settlement for road maintenance which the county council has received from the Department for Transport for 2016/17. However, approximately only £23-million of the £38-million allocation is available to spend on roads as the funding also has to pay for maintenance of street lighting, traffic signals, bridge repairs, drainage, safety barriers and public rights of way among other work. This leaves an annual shortfall as Devon’s road network needs around £55-million of capital investment every year to maintain its current condition.

The Pothole Action Fund work has to be completed before April. The full list of schemes is available at new.devon.gov.uk/roadsandtransport/maintaining-roads/business-plan-2015-2021/pothole-action-fund-201617