Work on schemes costing £1m is set to begin after a 49-strong list of projects in Redcar and Cleveland was approved.
In January, the borough council earmarked £2m to be spent on “public realm” improvements.
After workshops and consultations were held, lists of projects - ranging from short-term, high priority schemes to longer term proposals - were drawn up.
And now the council’s Cabinet has recommended work starts on phase one of the programme - 49 schemes costing a total of just over £1m, ranging in scale from tree planting and extra waste bins to the largest individual amount, £100,000 on new shelters for Saltburn Promenade to replace ones swept away by the December 2013 tidal surge.
In Redcar, the list includes £65,000 of new paving in Station Road, fencing for the Locke Park tennis and basketball courts (£20,000) and improvements to the High Street pedestrianised area, including new street furniture, a loudspeaker and electronic information boards (£30,000).
Smaller scale projects across the borough include tree planting, lighting, fencing, street furniture installation, path and road resurfacing, new residents’ car parking bays, playing field improvements and landscaping schemes. Speed reduction schemes are proposed for the western end of Broadway, Dormanstown but they may be grant funded.
The wards set to benefit are Coatham, Loftus, Dormanstown, Kirkleatham, Longbeck, Newcomen, St Germains, West Dyke, Zetland, Eston, Grangetown, Normanby, Ormesby, South Bank, Brotton, Guisborough, Hutton, Lockwood, Saltburn and Skelton.
A report to the Cabinet said 452 possible projects were originally identified but would have cost £14.2m - “way beyond the current committed budget of £2m.” It added: “It is proposed to deliver as many of the 49 projects, estimated at a cost of just over £1m, as funding availability and procurement procedures allow. It is then proposed that further consultation takes place with members to set the priorities for the remaining projects from the medium, long and further investigation categories, over the next nine months, which will then make up phase two of the programme.”
Councillor Helen McLuckie, Cabinet member for highways, planning and transport, said the list was a “working document” that could be subject to change “depending on circumstances and deliverability.”
She added: “Delivering schemes like this is not an exact science.”
Council deputy leader, Councillor Sheelagh Clarke, said: “It’s excellent that we are doing so much to upgrade the borough.”
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