Kent sends mixed messages on new road campaign01/08/2025 Kent County Council has expressed frustration to Highways that it has been forced to allocate the lion’s share of a £67m investment into reactive road repairs and not preventative measures. |
Devon launches pothole ‘blitz’ trial26/06/2025 Councillors in Devon have decided to carry out a ‘repair blitz’ by filling all potholes in designated trial areas, rather than focussing on safety defects. |
£25m for maintenance on major Welsh roads09/05/2025 A £25m refurbishment programme to repair thousands of potholes on some of Wales’ major roads has been approved. |
Surrey gets ahead of the pothole game with switch to AI15/01/2025 Surrey County Council is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to move away from manual inspections and solely use video and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to log potholes. |
Motoring groups see bumpy picture on pothole repairs15/01/2025 Motoring organisations have reported a mixed picture of ‘pothole-related’ call-outs last year. |
Admiral claims new rise in pothole damage14/01/2025 The number of pothole claims made to a top insurer last year was 14% higher than in 2023 and nearly three times the number in 2016, new data shows. |
Battle of the pothole repair machines is score draw14/01/2025 Gloucestershire County Council has completed its trial of four different pothole-filling machines declaring that they ‘all have their strengths’. |
Battle of the pothole repair machines is score draw13/01/2025 Gloucestershire County Council has completed its trial of four different pothole-filling machines declaring that they ‘all have their strengths’. |
Govt confirms £1.6bn for local roads but new incentives leave uncertainty20/12/2024 Ministers have confirmed an extra £500m for local road maintenance in England next year but a quarter of the cash will be held back on the basis of an incentive process that has yet to be worked out. |
Pothole claims double in a year21/11/2024 The number of pothole compensation claims to councils has more than doubled in a year, new data has revealed. |
Pothole-related breakdowns jump by 10,00007/10/2024 The number of pothole-related breakdowns has increased by 10,000 compared to last year, according to the AA Pothole Index. |
Safety warning as 75-year-old fills potholes23/08/2024 A Scottish council has expressed health and safety and insurance concerns after a 75-year-old resident used gardening tools to fill in potholes outside her home. |
App data 'suggests 11.5 million potholes in UK'01/07/2024 There are five times more defects on British roads than previous estimates, according to data from a dashboard app that uses AI technology. |
Lib Dem pothole cash ‘won’t scratch the surface’20/06/2024 The Liberal Democrats have committed to spending £300m over the next Parliament to fill 1.2 million potholes a year. |
DfT warns councils over resurfacing cash plans10/04/2024 One in seven eligible highway authorities in England have failed to publish resurfacing plans by the Government's deadline. |
Council responds to ‘Daventry Banksie’ pothole complaints08/04/2024 West Northamptonshire Council has responded to an anti-pothole protester with a computer-generated image of a roadside sign laden with song titles. |
Council sued after cyclist hits pothole06/02/2024 Staffordshire County Council is facing legal action after the triathlete Paul Hughes hit a pothole while cycling breaking multiple bones and damaging a lung. |
Councils 'have tightened pothole payout criteria'05/02/2024 Compensation paid by councils for damage caused by potholes has fallen by more than a half, with some giving out ‘next to nothing’, according to a new analysis of official data. |
Kiely joins AI monitoring revolution15/01/2024 The Kiely Group has added an artificial intelligence (AI) visual monitoring system to its toolkit, using a camera and machine learning to inspect road surfaces in real-time. |
Ministers launch lane rental consultation but roll-out is still in the slow lane15/01/2024 Ministers have launched a consultation on plans for highway authorities to use at least half of lane rental scheme surpluses for road repairs, claiming that this could generate ‘up to’ £100m. |
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