The Nairnshire roads due for maintenance this year have been approved by local councillors.
With a budget expected to be in the region of £500,000, some examples are surface dressing on Granny Barbours Road and Meikleburn Road; the re-profiling of the Cawdor Castle Road/B9090 junction – drainage and overlay; road widening on the B9090 Cairnglass to Clephanton road, the B9090 Cawdor to Budgate road and the B9090 Hedges to Howford road.
The programme also aims to patch the Daless road, Drynachan and surface-dress the Bogside of Boath – Millhill road.
The final budget has not yet been allocated, and may change in either direction.
The money breaks down roughly as a winter allocation of £114,283; cyclic maintenance of £290,294; £8,859 on drainage; spray injection of £4,481; gully emptying at £13,490 and bridge maintenance of £11,532.
Capital works scheduled include structural overlay/inlay of £135,164 and surface dressing at £87,054.
Nairn councillors also approved a 3% increase in garage rents, with any surplus going into their maintenance and repair.
The rent for council tenants will increase by 18p from £5.85 to £6.03.
Garage rent for non-council tenants will go up by 21p from £7.02 to £7.23.
Garage site rent for council tenants will increase by 2p from 68p to 70p and for non-Tenant increase by 3p from 82p to 85p.
As a result, local income will increase from £14,550 to £15,018.
Nairnshire committee chairman Cllr Tom Heggie said: “Any net additional rent income from garages and garage sites would be applied as an increase in the area repairs budget for garages and garage sites in 2020/21.”