More than £40,000 is to be spent on minor road improvements in Keighley and surrounding villages over the next 11 months.

Keighley Area Panel, which is made up of Bradford councillors representing the town, last week decided which streets should receive work.

They agreed to improve footways in Wardle Crescent, Guard House, Station Road, Oakworth, Royd House Walk, Long Lee, and Park Avenue in Keighley.

Disabled crossings will be provided in Briggate, Silsden, and Skipton Road, Keighley, and kerbs will be lowered in the town centre.

Flags will be repaired in Queensway, Low Street, and Towngate all in Keighley town centre, and bollards will safeguard the pedestrian area in Low Street.

Verges will be hardened to provide car parking in Beauvais Drive, Riddlesden, Greystones Drive and Staveley Road, Bracken Bank.

Other work includes drainage improvements in Whitley Head, Steeton; repairs to stone flower beds and seats in the Highfield area of Keighley; and a bitmac footway in Gordon Street, Highfield.

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