FOI Request - Bridge Condition

Request 101003444984

The definition of a “road bridge” in the ‘Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure A Code of Practice’ is a structure with a span of 1.5m or more providing public highway passage for motor vehicles over an obstacle such as a watercourse, railway, road or valley.
Using this definition, please provide the following information for all road bridges for which you own as highway authority, including those which are jointly owned with another authority, but for which you are the lead authority (N.B. if your management system is based on an alternative definition (e.g. 0.9m or 1.8m spans) you are welcome to provide this data but please indicate clearly what definition you have used.

These Questions All Relate To The Financial Year 2022/2023

These questions largely mirror ones which we have asked your organisation in previous years.
However, please note – that following feedback on last years survey, we have made some minor changes to some questions, and this has also affected question numbering towards the end of the survey.

1.  How many road bridges are you responsible for maintaining?

2.  For the last financial year 2022/23

(i) how many Principal Inspections have taken place in that year?
(ii) how many Principal Inspections did you plan to do in that year?

3.  For the last financial year 2022/23
(i) how many General Inspections have taken place in that year?
(ii) how many General Inspections did you plan to do in that year?

4.  For the last financial year 2022/23 how many Structural Reviews did you undertake?

5.  How many substandard bridges do you have (in terms of ability to carry 44t vehicles)?  Please exclude bridges that have weight restrictions for environmental reasons.

6.  Of these substandard bridges, how many do you intend to return or upgrade to full load carrying capacity in the next 5 years?

7.  How many bridges would you return to full load carrying capacity if you had no resource restrictions?

8.  (i) How many post-tensioned bridges do you have?

(ii) How many of those have had PTSIs within the last 18 years?

(iii) Of those that have not had a PTSI, how many require/are due one?

(iv) How much funding would you anticipate is required to remove the backlog of PTSIs for those bridges identified in Q8(iii)?

9.  In monetary terms, what is the current Depreciation (i.e. difference between your GRC and DRC for 2022/23?

10.  What is the calculated value of your workbank? (Workbank is defined as the total value of condition-based maintenance work that has been identified and can be calculated using SAVI or by other means)

11.  (i) What is the annual revenue works expenditure for maintaining your bridge stock (excluding staff costs)?
(ii) What is the annual capital works expenditure for maintaining your bridges stock?

(iii) What total budget would you estimate is required to maintain the bridge stock at its current level (standstill budget)?

12.  For the last financial year: 2022/23

(i) How many of your bridges required a Stage 1 Scour Assessment?

(ii) How many Stage 1 Scour Assessments did you undertake?

13.  For the last financial year: 2022/23

(i) How many of your bridges required a Stage 2 Scour Assessment?

(ii) How many Stage 2 Scour Assessments did you undertake?

14.  (i) How many bridges under your management completely collapsed in 2022/23?

(ii) How many bridges under your management partially collapsed in 2022/23?

(iii) Would you be happy to share the detail with members of the UK Bridges Board? Y/N

15.   What was your Bridge Stock Condition Index (BSCI) at the end of 2022/23 (or current if easier)?

16.  What issues with managing your bridge stock causes you most concern?

Response 05-01-2024

Updated 26-02-2024

1. Moray council have 379 Road Bridge which we have responsibility for

2.
(i) 52 Inspections were under taken in 22/23
(ii) 63 Inspection were planned to be undertaken 22/23

3.
(i) 195 General inspections were completed
(ii) 190 planned General Inspections

4. No Structural Reviews were undertaken in 22/23, the structural reviews for the 2022/2023 Principal Inspections were completed in 2023 and will be accounted for in next years data.

5. Moray Council current have 11 weight restricted bridges and 1 closed due to under capacity

6. 1

7. All

8.
(i) None from the data available
(ii) Data not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
(iii) Data not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
(iv) Data not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

9. £69,506,228

10. This Data is not currently kept. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.

11.
(i) £130,000
(ii) Capital spend figure is £2,965,663.77 for 2022/2023.
(iii) £1,500,000* Revenue a year (some of our bridge stock will require significant capital cost to keep them operational). The cost of this is not currently known & has not been included as this capital spend would be an improvement rather than a standstill.

*please note, in a previous version of this response a zero was missing from this figure. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

12.
(i) No assessments were undertaken
(ii) No assessments were undertaken

13.

i) No assessments were undertaken
ii) No assessments were undertaken

14.
(i) None
(ii) None
(iii) Not Applicable

15. 22/23 BCI score was 84.01

16. Insufficient financial and staff resources