Areas with worst potholes revealed as Labour tells councils to ‘get on’ with repairs
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Find out how badly your area is affected by the pothole ‘plague’. Sir Keir Starmer has told local councils to “get on” with fixing potholes in their areas as Labour pledges an extra £500 million to boost repairs. Authorities will each receive a cut of the £1.6bn set aside for road maintenence last year, as Labour tops up the fund by nearly 50 per cent from last year.
The funds will fix the potholes that ‘plague’ the country’s roads, the Department for Transport (DfT) has said, with the equivalent of 7 million extra potholes set to be fixed in 2025/26. Statistics from the RAC show that their patrols attended nearly 30,000 pothole-related breakdowns in 2023, up 33 per cent from 2022.
Research from the Liberal Democrats earlier in the year also uncovered the latest pothole statistics by local council, revealing some of the worst hit areas in the country. Derbyshire was revealed to be one of the worst-affected areas, with over 90,500 potholes. Following this was Lancashire (67,439), Northumberland (51,703) and Surrey (43,191).
The research also uncovered the areas where potholes take the longest time to fix. The top three were Stoke-on-Trent (567 days), Westminster (556 days), and Norfolk (482 days). Alongside the funding announcement, the DfT added that a quarter of the budget uplift will be held back from local authorities until they have “shown that they are delivering.”.
