Council's £7m pledge to repair landslip roads currently closed

A LANDSLIP-hit Derbyshire road will have been closed for four years by the time it reopens, council officials have revealed as it launches £7million in repairs funding.

- By EDDIE BISKNELL

Derbyshire County Council's Reform UK administration has announced £48m highways capital improvements for the next year, which includes £7m for landslip repairs on five landslip-hit routes in Bakewell, Barlow, Beeley, Edale and Holloway.

A further £22m is available but yet to be allocated to projects because the council has not received confirmation of receipt of that figure, claiming it may have to until April for that.

There are a total of 221 landslips across Derbyshire, the county council details, some of which, on Snake Pass, will require much more substantial funding bids into the “hundreds of millions” which the authority cannot cover itself and has been persistently lobbying the Government and East Midlands mayor for.

The Holloway slip relates to a 40-metre stretch of damage on Leashaw caused by heavy rainfall which has led to the closure of the road since November 2022.

Council officials update that work is due to start next spring and “likely” be complete by the autumn, but with a contingency backstop of December 2026.

This confirms that the route will have been closed for four years by the time the £1.1 million repairs are carried out.