Spend for Painting Roundabouts

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a. Total recorded spend incurred by the Council for repainting roundabouts (including planned maintenance and reactive works), broken down where held by: staff time/recharge rates, contractor costs, vehicles/plant/materials, traffic management, disposal/waste, overtime.

b. The number of jobs/incidents where roundabouts were repainted, with date and ward or postcode sector for each (no exact addresses required).

2. The job/incident category codes and cost centre/recharge codes used for these works (e.g. road markings/white lining/circulatory carriageway/roundabout).

3. The current schedule of rates (or equivalent) used by the Council and/or its contractor(s) for road-marking/white-lining works specifically applicable to roundabouts (e.g. per metre/per m² rates, mobilisation, traffic management).

4. Any policy/guidance/SOP in force during the period for inspection, prioritisation and repainting of roundabout markings and associated surfacing, including the legal basis (e.g. Highways Act 1980 s41 duty to maintain; Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016; Traffic Signs Manual - Chapter 5 (Road Markings); UKRLG "Well-managed Highway Infrastructure").

1a. £652 road markings (material, labour, plant).

£39.54 uplift for out of hours work

£1730.56 traffic management

£288.09 contract fee

b. From a search of lining renewal instructions with the listed key words in the description, 2 jobs have resulted.

Job 5835675 "Please refresh the arrows, give way lines and the centres line approaching and leaving the petrol station roundabout". 

Completed 23 October 2025. 

Electoral Division: Boston South

Location: Westbridge Road, Wyberton

Job 5812795 "Please refresh all give way lines at the junctions on the roundabout".

Completed 24 July 2025.

Electoral Division: Holbeach Rural

Location: A17 Dual carriageway, Kingsgate, B1359, A17 Westbound and Station Road, Gedney

2. Both were ordered under the 6300 reactive series of the term contract.

The job type was "6300 | Road Markings - Studs (63RM)".

3. Commercially sensitive information

4. Please refer to Highways infrastructure asset management plan 2024

Particularly:

Para 4.8 on page 42

Para 5.11 on page 50