Highway Surface Treatment or Dressing Provider - Find a freedom of information request

Request

1. Emulsion Provider:

Who is your emulsion/binder provider for each type of emulsion used in your highway surface treatment/dressing?



2. Surface Dressing and Treatment Data:

a) A breakdown of all surface dressing treatment types used per year, including aggregate size and binder rate of spread (e.g., single, double, racked-in, sandwich, etc.)

b) Historic annual expenditure for each treatment type

c) Total area covered by surface dressing annually and the number of sites treated

Decision

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.  
 
1.    The emulsion and binder provider for surface dressing operations in Lincolnshire are determined within the Lincolnshire County Council Approved Suppliers List https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/1909/approved-suppliers-list
 , Page 28
2.    Surface Dressing Types used in Lincolnshire
a.    Single 6mm 

Single 6mm + Encapsulation

Racked In 10/6mm

Racked In 14/6mm

Double 10 & 6mm

Double 14 & 6mm

Binder Rates of spread are designed in accordance with Road Note 39 - Design Guidance for Surface Dressing.

b. Information not recorded
c. In 2024, Lincolnshire surface dressed 1,800,000m2 incorporating 227 sites.
 

Reference number
11768473
Date request received
18 February 2025
Date of decision
14 March 2025