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<p>The Department for Transport is providing (a) Stoke-on-Trent with over £5.5 million
and (b) Staffordshire with over £37 million through the Transport Infrastructure Investment
Fund this financial year. It is for each Council to decide on how this funding is
utilised based on their highway asset management strategy, needs, and priorities.</p><p>
</p><p>In addition, Stoke-on-Trent council were successful in their £5 million ‘Keep
Stoke Moving’ key corridor Challenge Fund bid in February this year. Staffordshire
County Council also successfully bid for £2.35 million to upgrade Chetwynd Bridge,
a historic Grade II* structure.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport held two
consultation exercises in 2014 to seek views from local highway authorities, organisations,
and members of the public regarding how we allocate funding to local highway authorities.
Following the consultation exercises, it was agreed that we would allocate funding
to each highway authority in England, outside London, based on road lengths and highways
assets such as bridges and lighting columns for which they are responsible. This is
the most fair and proportionate way to distribute this funding.</p>
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