To think that this goverment might be repairing pot holes ( at last).

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I've noticed more road works recently which everyone moans about, but i've notices road serfaces are being repaired at last...more so that when the tories were in power...am I imagining it?

The Government don't repair roads or specifically allocate funding to the activity.

Thank your local Council instead.

Gotta spend the budget before April

⬆️ what they said.

Loads more in my town, a lot are gas works. Annoying, but the work needs doing

Local councils trying to justify the upcoming rate hikes by finally filling in the craters in your streets

The majority of roads with potholes are owned by local councils, not the Government.

Councils aren't doing roadworks to justify putting up Council Tax.

It's scary how few people understand how council funding works.

Nope all the roads I use have pot holes. The M25 has some great pot holes. I weave really badly some journeys.

The local government/council and Highways England are the people who sort them and they don't give a flying monkeys.

They actually do give grant funding to councils to repair pot holes. If it comes late in the year councils will wait until they know what they're getting before they spend it

www.gov.uk/government/publications/highways-maintenance-funding-allocations/additional-budget-2023-highways-maintenance-and-pothole-repair-funding-2023-to-2024

Come to where I live. They are literally everywhere. People swerving over roads to avoid them as they are so big. Labour council as well. They never get fixed

Have you got local elections in May..? As pp have said, it’s your council who funds highways maintenance and the main complaints that local councillors get are potholes and bins. In a year of local elections, you will often see very prompt services around potholes and bins between January to May!

They are worse than they've ever been here in Cambridgeshire. The UK has become a depressing dump.

Shame a lot of local councils have had their elections postponed because Labour want to introduce new larger unitary authorities. Against the wishes of many of the local residents. Especially when they're due to merge with bankrupt councils.

Most councils have been facing bankruptcy. Social care bills have skyrocketed. Potholes, dog bins, hedge cutting come after providing care. It's good if yours has found some funds for it. I don't think ours has.

Yes Councils are responsible, but Labour specifically made a pot of money available for them to apply to for pothole repairs in the last Budget https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygv2y2e1eo.amp

LAs don’t apply, the DfT dishes it out according to a formula based on length of road etc. if you are that interested, look up your council’s (county or unitary or city region) highway asset management plan and see how the roads are assessed and prioritised (if you have insomnia). There is additional funding from 1st April but since construction costs have risen massively due to supply chain issues and general inflation it doesn’t buy much extra. Best thing you can do is keep reporting individual potholes online (to the council, not those Fix My Street type apps). Tolerances are set and cosmetic appearance doesn’t come into it, sorry. It’s to do with maintaining structural integrity, safety and reducing motorists’ damage claims.

Budgets are set and ring-fenced for specific activities. Social care budgets cannot be spent on fixing potholes and vice versa.

Definitely lots of road resurfacing going in in my area!! Well needed too!

There seems to be a lot of it about but it's mostly crap infills rather than proper resurfacing and will need doing again in 3 months' time. It's the typical/habitual last month of the financial year meaning councils are tripping up over themselves trying to spend the money left in their budgets, and they don't care what it's spent on or how wisely they spend it. One of the many adverse consequences of the way we do public sector finance in this country, i.e. badly!

Lots of unnecessary white lining going on as well, i.e. long white lines down the side of roads. Completely useless because they're not re-lining the junction markings, give way markings, central no overtaking lines, etc., just the road edge lines!

We have an awful lot of roadwork activity/resurfacing etc going on here at the moment- have seen more action in 5 months than I saw in 5 years! Not sure if it’s the council or more being allocated by gvt for this purpose but it’s very welcome ( if a pain in the arse that it’s so much all at once)

Councils always do repairs before the start of the new financial year

A road I know of is so bad and full of whacking great potholes it's been on the BBC and mentioned in Parliament.

Whilst it’s good practice to have spent annual budgets by 31 March, the current activity is more likely to be due to the weather becoming warmer and more reliably dry.

This. It’s always the same every year

If it’s revenue, yes it needs to be spent. But the main DfT funding is Capital and can be carried over.

No but when budgets are set things are ordered by priority.