Asset management

Highway asset management

The roads, pavements, bridges, streetlights, and signs in Shropshire are very important - they help people get to work, school, and visit each other, and they support local businesses. That’s why we use a system called asset management to help take care of them.

We monitor the condition of the roads and other highway features using surveys, inspections, and what you tell us. We use this information to decide what needs fixing now and what can wait. By doing the right work at the right time, we can avoid bigger, more expensive problems in the future.

We have formed plans that explain how we look after each part of the highway to keep them in good shape now and in the future. You can find out about these in our Highways Asset Management Strategy.

We’ve also created a 'resilient network' - roads and routes that we focus on during extreme weather. This keeps essential services running and helps reduce disruption for everyone.

The Department for Transport has allocated additional funding for highways maintenance in 2025/26. You can learn about how we've allocated our funding, and how this additional funding will be invested, using the Transparency Report (coming soon).

We also publish information about the condition of our highway, how many potholes have been repaired and how well we are responding to customer enquiries