A council has revealed that 65,000 square metres of road has been resurfaced in the borough since April.

In recent weeks, residents in Blackburn may have noticed a number of busy roads have had a makeover, including West Park Road next to Corporation Park, Troy Street off Whalley Range, and Livingstone Road off Buncer Lane. 

Council teams are presently working on Shadsworth Road and work on Sough Road in Darwen is due to commence next week.

Large sections of some of these roads had deteriorated over many years of use with residents and motorists calling for immediate action.

The plans to resurface the roads are part of Blackburn with Darwen Council's highways capital programme.

The council said a further 5,000 square metres of roads are left to be resurfaced and the programme is due to be completed by November 29. 

Leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council, Councillor Phil Riley, said: “In the October half term, we started our final phase of surfacing at West Park Road in Blackburn, then moving onto smaller residential streets across Blackburn such as Alderman Arthur Townsend Way, Greenhead Avenue, Kelsall Avenue and recently completed Troy Street. 

“We are currently on site on Shadsworth Road near the junction of Fecitt Brow, which is due to complete next week. 

“Sough Road in Darwen is due to commence on November 19 followed by a small section of Jack Walker Way.

"Vale Street in Darwen will commence on November 25, which will be undertaken in the evenings and complete this year’s resurfacing programme.”

In May the council announced £612,000 has been received from the Department for Transport to maintain the borough’s road network, which was reallocated from the HS2 project.

The additional funding from the Network North Plan represented a 30 per cent increase and allowed the highways department to re-surface approximately 6.2km of road in a year which is 1.2 per cent of the network, as opposed to 4.5km of the network with previous funding levels.