Carmarthenshire roads face £77m maintenance backlog

Carmarthenshire roads face £77m maintenance backlog

Carmarthenshire council is increasingly having to repair roads rather than preventing the deterioration more cost-effectively in the first place, according to auditors.

County's £77m road maintenance backlog

Nation Cymru staff A Welsh council is increasingly having to repair roads rather than preventing the deterioration more cost-effectively in the first place, according to auditors. Audit Wales said Carmarthenshire council’s real-terms expenditure on roads has fallen by 40% since 2008-09 and that its approach had become more reactive and wasn’t sustainable in the long […]