Rutland’s county signs are not on the priority list for the local council for the remainder of this year and will not be replaced until 2027.
The Portfolio Holder for Environment and Transport Councillor Oliver Hemsley from Rutland County Council says that essential highway maintenance works must come first before the winter bites.
He says that the council has prioritised major road resurfacing and drainage schemes in recent months to improve safety on the county’s highway network and says the planned works could be completed ahead of the winter period.
The council will continue to focus their finite resources on essential highway maintenance throughout the winter which means the programme to replace Rutland's boundary signs will begin only once those priority works have been completed.
This follows a letter written to the council leader by MP Alicia Kearns and leader of the opposition, Councillor Lucy Stephenson, which reiterated that it has already been three months since 17 signs were taken down by the council as a preventative measure after 10 went missing during the summer.
The missing signs were take down without permission, believed to be stolen as a reaction to government reorganisation which announced that Rutland was to rejoin Leicestershire in a new local authority.
Those plans have since been shelved by the government but the county remains without its name signs other than on the A1.
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