Decision details

Surface Dressing is a preventative maintenance process which is used to protect a road against environmental damage and also helps to restore skid resistance. It is proven to provide an economic solution to maintaining a road network.
The National Design Guide for Surface Dressing states that the process must be carried out between April and September for our locality, as certain conditions which include road temperature and humidity are essential. As only a handful of National Contractors are available to carry out this work, each local authority is required to slot in with a national programme.
Prior to the work being carried out, the team will spend much of the previous year arranging for foundation repairs to be carried out ahead of the surfacing. Our contractor has programmed the work to start on 15th April 2019.

To install the full surface dressing programme in accordance with the contract thus reducing the possibility of further deprecation of the asset.

Option 1 - Alternative option would be to cancel which would be of detriment of the authority undertaking its statutory and would cost the authority more in the long term therefore rejected.
Option 2 -
Option 3 -