More than £93 million has been spent in the past 12 months to improve schools, roads and leisure facilities, according to latest estimates from Medway Council.

The final figure will depend on bills that come in, but the Tory-run Cabinet was patting itself on the back this week after reporting on the delivery of about 100 schemes.

These include more than:

*£1.8m spent on upgrading allotments, a wheel park for

*Medway youngsters, soundproofing the Castle Gardens in Rochester and improvements to libraries.

Finance portfolio holder Cllr Alan Jarrett (Con) said: “We won’t spend the whole of the capital programme because a few things have been held over, but most are completed.”

New CCTV cameras needed to tackle anti-social crime in Halling are among the schemes still awaiting a start date, the meeting heard.