Work is continuing to progress well on Argyll and Bute Council's second year of a three-year roads capital reconstruction programme.

The programme was originally valued at £21m, and this year has received an additional £1.2m to bring the overall budget to £22.2m.

The local authority added that it is currently on, or ahead, of its programme in several areas, including a substantial surfacing operation on the Island of Coll.

Weather delays did affect some works, but the first part of the surface dressing operation has now been completed in Lorn, Islay and Kintyre with the second phase in Lomond, Cowal and Mid Argyll scheduled for July.


The work is being delivered using the council’s in house team delivering carriageway resurfacing and patching works across the council area except for on Mull, Islay, Jura, Coll, Tiree and Kintyre. These locations have had resurfacing and patching works delivered by the council’s contractual partner Breedon.

Surfacing dressing, which both seals the road surface from water penetration and increases skid resistance, is being delivered by Kiely Brothers who were awarded a contract for the council wide area.

Lead Councillor for Environment, Development and Infrastructure, John Semple said: "The focus of the programme has been to help the roads network recover from the past few extreme winters with a mix of carriageway resurfacing schemes, patching, surface dressing and recycling.

"The council aims to give prioritisation to those routes which are likely to contribute greatest to economic growth and improved quality of life.

"This is all about fixing the roads rather than filling potholes, we have reversed the decline in road condition across the area and are already seeing steady improvements for road users."

(JP/CD)