Funding for road repairs

9:11am Tuesday 29th May 2001

ROADS in Swanley and Fawkham areas have been allocated nearly £95,000 by Sevenoaks District Council for repairs can be carried out.

The work will be done by the district council's highway unit which was given a total of £1.33m by Kent County Council, a 35 per cent increase on last year.

Fawkham is getting £55,000, with half the money being spent on lagoon and ditch clearance, in the Kemsing and Hartley areas. The other half of the money is being spent resurfacing Valley Road.

Swanley has been allocated £40,000 with two thirds of the money being spent on footway reconstruction in Barnfield Close and Hart Dyke Road.

The rest of the money will be spent on anti-skid surfacing, costing £6000, on Goldsel Road, where it meets Station Road and London Road, because of a number of accidents in that area. And Top Road Hextable is getting £5,000 to modify its traffic calming scheme.

Mayor of Swanley, Councillor Frank Parker, said: “I welcome the repairs which are long over due.

“The pavements in Swanley are in a dreadful state. The best ones are where cables have been laid and resurfaced by private companies.”

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