Nottinghamshire will get an extra £4.5 million for repairs to its damaged roads from the new regional combined authority. The East Midlands Combined County Authority’s (EMCCA) met earlier this week (Monday, February 24) to discuss funding and investment into major projects across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
The committee meeting shed light on how much money the area will be getting to fund road repairs following doubt about how much extra funding would be received. In December 2024, more than £75 million in government funding was announced for the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) to hand out to member councils for road repairs for the 2025/26 financial year.
The figure was broken down and discussed in a meeting earlier this week. The December Labour Government announcement was originally met with uncertainty by Nottinghamshire County Council leader, Sam Smith (Con), who told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “Each year [the council] receives funding to repair roads and I fear that [the] announcement will not result in an increase of what we usually receive.”
He told the LDRS the council currently gets £25 million in government funding for road maintenance. The EMCCA meeting yesterday confirmed Nottinghamshire County Council will be getting £29,480,000 from the combined authority towards road maintenance for the 2025/26 financial year – around a £4.5 million increase on the council’s current road funding.
The authority has already invested £66 million in road repairs this financial year, such as resurfacing, pothole repairs and gully cleaning. Speaking to the LDRS earlier this week (February 25), Cllr Smith said: “We welcome the increase in highways funding as repairing the roads, pavements and cleaning drains is the biggest priority of residents- they tell us that all the time- and it’s our priority.”
This is not the only increase in funding the county has seen for its damaged roads. The county council earlier announced on February 6 an extra £3.3 million was going to be directly funnelled into repairing the county’s roads.
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