Shropshire Council awarded £3.8m for safety improvements on A529

Shropshire Council has welcomed the award of £3,888,000 from the Department for Transport’s Safer Roads Fund to improve safety on the A529 between Hinstock and Audlem.

The DfT’s £100m Safer Roads Fund will enable local authorities to improve the 50 most dangerous stretches of ‘A’ roads in England.

Shropshire Council and their term consultant WSP are now going through the detail of this week’s announcement, and will then develop the necessary work plans.

The work will involve various safety improvement measures at key locations on the A529, which will be undertaken as a result of the funding award. These will include junction and visibility improvements, and enhanced road markings and signing.

Work is set to start this financial year (ie before the end of March 2019) and will initially focus on the design phase of the scheme.

Steve Davenport, Cabinet member for highways and transport, said:

“This is great news and I welcome the award of this money that will enable us to carry out essential and much-needed safety work on this dangerous stretch of road. I’m delighted that our bid, combined with lobbying the government, has been successful and I look forward to work starting at the earliest opportunity.”

To read the funding application, click here.