Cash boost for work on roads; Resurfacing in council ward.

Byline: By KATIE CAMPLING News Reporter

HIGHWAYS bosses have granted pounds 549,000 of funding to improve roads in parts of Huddersfield.

Roads in the Greenhead council ward, which includes parts of Paddock, Marsh, Edgerton, Birkby and Fartown, will benefit from the money.

It will fund resurfacing work for roads and pavements.

The first location to see improvement is High Street in Paddock, where a pounds 30,000 programme of work began last week.

Next week, improvements will begin at Cowcliffe Hill Road at Cowcliffe.

The work at that location will cost pounds 137,000. Work is also due at Syringa Street, in Marsh, costing pounds 220,000.

Later in the year, pounds 60,000 will be spent resurfacing Mountjoy Road in Edgerton and pounds 17,000 will pay for work in nearby Vernon Avenue.

Resurfacing at Jim Lane in Marsh will total pounds 22,000, pounds 32,000 will be spent at Cobcroft Road in Fartown, pounds 43,000 at Dudley Road in Marsh and pounds 65,000 on Halifax Old Road in Birkby.

Greenhead ward councillors Barbara Jones, Mehboob Khan and Mohan Sokhal welcomed the work, which they said was badly needed.

Clr Sokhal said: "For a long time we have been lobbying for money to tackle the condition of some very awful roads and pavements in our ward.

"Residents have been concerned about the condition of the roads, which have significantly deteriorated over the years. We are very pleased that the work is now going to commence."