Larkhall roads and pavements - resurfacing suggestions needed!

A message from Cllr Pete Robbins:

Lambeth officers are currently preparing a list of roads and pavements that need to be resurfaced, and I am looking to gather suggestions from Larkhall residents.

Please email me as soon as possible if you wish your road to be considered - I need to make suggestions within the week if possible.

Not all nominated roads and pavements will be automatically included in the programme as inclusions will be decided by an engineer’s assessment. Although condition continues to be the most important criteria for inclusion, for footways last year officers weighted the condition rankings by following factors:

- importance as a footway (usage and number of links),
- profile (e.g. town centre or by important building),
- links with other new development (e.g. new school, carriageway renewal),
- and build-ability (absence of other works such as utility renewals).

In addition this year officers are proposing to add a factor representing economic deprivation, on the basis that the economically poorer communities are proportionately more dependent on high standard local footways. Many parts of Larkhall will stand to gain on this basis.

Despite strict inclusion rules, sometimes roads and pavements are overlooked. This is usually if they are heavily used and have therefore, deteriorated more quickly than expected, which is why I have been asked to nominate.

I hope that residents in the area will ensure that any hot spots that officers and I haven’t already picked up are given due consideration.

The allocated £2 million (approx) will be distributed between foot and carriageways. This is because the majority of the Council’s maintenance backlog lies within the footways rather than carriageways and because we have attracted external funding for road repairs through improving local routes, bus priority schemes etc.

The finalised programme will be available on 31 January 2008 and a copy will be available online.

Please send your nominations to me at probbins@lambeth.gov.uk