YORK'S transport boss has set out where more than £4 million will be spent, repairing and improving the city's roads and footpaths.

The Annual Highway Maintenance Report has been approved by Neil Ferris, City of York Council's director of city and environmental services.

It includes a long list of roads that have had the funding confirmed for repairs this year.

In drawing up the spending plan, council staff have had to survey all the roads and footpaths in the council's network and rate them from 1 to 5, with 1 being the best score.

Improvement works will be carried out on the following roads, using Local Transport Plan funds:

  • Part of the A19, Selby Road
  • Part of the A59
  • Appleton Road
  • Askham Fields Lane
  • Bad Bargain Lane
  • Field View
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Fourth Avenue
  • Front Street
  • Gerard Avenue
  • Haxby Road
  • Heslington Lane
  • Heslington Road
  • Hull Road
  • Lancar Close
  • Lang Road
  • Lindsey Avenue
  • Melrosegate
  • Minster View
  • Monkton Road
  • Part of Naburn Lane
  • Pottery Lane
  • Ramsey Avenue
  • Runswick Avenue
  • St Oswald's Road
  • University Road
  • Wetherby Road
  • Woodside Avenue

​More basic "surface dressing" work will be carried out on:

  • Part of Askham Fields Lane
  • York Road, Askham Bryan
  • Part of Wetherby Road
  • Long Ridge Lane
  • Part of Elvington Lane
  • Part of the A59
  • Part of Naburn Lane
  • Part of Heslington Lane

Footpaths will be improved on:

  • Brompton Road
  • Bull Lane
  • Crombie Avenue
  • De Grey Place
  • Elmlands Grove
  • Fairfields Drive
  • Gormire Avenue
  • Grove View 
  • Hamilton Drive
  • Harrington Avenue
  • Hesketh Bank
  • Hill Crest
  • Key Way
  • Lidgett Grove
  • Maythorpe
  • Middlethorpe Grove
  • Middlewood Close
  • Milestone Avenue
  • Newton Terrace
  • Nunnery Lane
  • Nunthorpe Crescent
  • Nunthorpe Grove
  • Poppleton Hall Gardens
  • Saville Grove
  • Shipton Road
  • Southlands Road
  • Station Road
  • Straylands Grove
  • Swinegate
  • The Mount
  • Yarbrugh Way
  • Yew Tree Close

On the 1 to 5 rating system, about 60 per cent of footpaths were in grade 3. Just under a third were given a 2 rating, and the rest were split between either top quality 1 ratings or the worst conditions of 4 or 5.

Among roads, about half scored 3 and 27 per cent scored 2. The principal roads were in better condition with more than a tenth in top condition with group 1 ranking. Among other roads, that number fell to three per cent.

The money for the roadworks comes from City of York Council's own funds and specific Local Transport Plan funding.

The report also shows that in the coming years, authorities like City of York will have to up their performance when it comes to roads maintenance, in order to keep hold of government funding for the repairs.

The Department for Transport funding is being "incentivised" - from the 2015/16 financial year onwards, according to how well councils perform.

York, and other areas in the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, currently performs at "Band 2" level, the middle of three grades. Although Band 2 areas get 100 per cent of the available funding this year, 2016/17, next year that drops to 90 per cent and by 2020/21 they will only get 30 per cent.

Only by improving its performance in areas like resilience and efficiency and becoming a Band 3 authority could York make sure it keeps all the roads funding in coming years.