Highways maintenance transparency report

2. Our highway network

Oldham Council manages and maintains adopted highway assets falling within its 846km network.

Lengths of highways, footways, PROW and cycleways (km)
A roads B & C roads Unclassified roads Total roads Footways Public Rights of Way Cycleways
112 66 668 846 1099 450 56

The council does not maintain the motorways or A663 Broadway in Chadderton, from Manchester boundary to A627(M), which is a trunk road. These roads are managed by National Highways.

Street lights and illuminated road signs/bollards are managed by Community Lighting Partnership under a PFI contract.

 

Highway maintenance spending
Year Capital allocated by DfT Total capital spend Revenue spend Estimate spent on preventative maintenance Estimate spent on reactive maintenance
2025/26 £3.067m  £3.067m £2.593m1 54 46
2024/25 £3.067m  £3.067m £2.508m 55 45
2023/24 £3.067m  £3.067m £2.739m 53 47
2022/23 £3.067m  £3.067m £2.459M 56 44
2021/22 £4.714m  £8.272m2 £1.983m3 81 19
2020/21 £4.714m  £9.414m2 £1.528m3 86 14

1 Forecast based on month 3 figures

2 Figures for 2020/21 & 2021/22 include additional funding via prudential borrowing which formed Oldham's Highways Investment Programme (HIP) 

3 Reduced service due to Covid