CAERPHILLY county borough council has proposed to spend more than £9 million on maintaining its highway network for the year 2013/14.

In a report approved by the council’s regeneration and environment scrutiny committee recently, it was proposed that the council’s highways team continue with the ongoing strategy to maximise planned maintenance and reduce the need for reactive maintenance.

More than £3.6 million of carriageway surface treatments will be undertaken during the year along with additional works including carriageway reconstruction, resurfacing, footway resurfacing and bridge strengthening schemes which will be funded by £2.8 million of prudential borrowing that the Welsh Government is providing over the next 22 years.

Cllr Tom Williams, member for highways, transportation and engineering, said: “The Caerphilly county borough highway system is the authority’s biggest asset, valued at almost £2 billion. It is therefore only right that this budget has been allocated to ensure the continued maintenance of this asset, which serves everyone who lives in the county borough, whether they use public transport, their own vehicles, or the cycling and walking networks that operate.”

A full copy of the report can be found at caerphilly.gov.uk