Cheshire East Council is to invest a further £10m in highway improvements over the coming year.
This highway investment programme is included in the council's approved budget for 2017/18, to continue work to improve the condition of Cheshire East's roads.
The Council has spent £35m on road improvements over the last three years, with reports of road defects reducing from 17,000 in 2012/13 to just over 4,000 in 2015/16.
Councillor David Brown, deputy leader of Cheshire East Council and cabinet member for highways and infrastructure, said: "We are committed to continue to utilise available budgets to ensure the right road treatment is planned, in the right location and done at the right time.
"Based on Department for Transport statistics, Cheshire East's roads showed the greatest improvement in condition in the North West in 2015, with 'A' and 'B' roads improving by three per cent and 'C' roads by six per cent, compared with 2013."
The council is on track to qualify for further government 'incentive funding' worth £870,000, with the potential for increased funding in 2018/19.
The council's highways online reporting 'tools' can be used to report and track any highways issues.
Photo: Councillor David Brown.
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I can only say that the Adlington Road development had conditions attached to it re road improvement from the A34 to Dean Row Road. This has never materialised despite Bollin Park now being partially occupied. One can only assume that they are waiting for Taylor Wimpey to get permission to develop on Heathfield Farm - that way two lots of money can come in for the same stretch of road and some monies can be used to fill the potholes created elsewhere.
When is a "consultation" not a "consultation", but a fait accompli?
Meaningless statistics aside, anyone who actually lives and drives in the region will know that the roads are beyond abysmal and are deteriorating daily.
However, for all the idiotic waffle churned out by CEC I must give them credit for ticking the diversity box, for here, on our doorstep they've successfully created a highway infrastructure that perfectly replicates a 15th Century Romainian village.
Those with a fondness for nostalgia will also appreciate the journey time from Alderley Edge to Handforth, which can now be completed in exactly the same time as a horse and cart.
Add to this the miles and miles of roadworks with no one actually working, the switching off of the street lights and the potential closure of our local refuge sites and the plan of the council becomes obvious-To create a semi-functional, medieval town in 21st century Britain. It's an ingenious idea on their part as we'll see the reintroduction of window and beard taxes.
Rumour has it that an application to build a ducking stool has already been submitted.