Councils share in £50m pothole fund

7 Apr 16

Allocations for 2016/17 from the £50m Pothole Action Fund, intended to repair nearly 1 million potholes across the country over the next 12 months, have been announced.

Over 100 councils in England will receive funding from the Department for Transport, in the first year of a four-year £250m scheme intended to fix over 4 million potholes by 2020/21.

Allocations have been made on the basis that councils can fill a pothole for £53. Funding is calculated according to the size of the local road network in the area, and the single biggest allocation for 2016/17 is Devon, which will receive over £1.9m to fill 36,830 potholes. A total of 19 allocations over £1m have been made to councils.

Announcing the funding, transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin highlighted that almost every journey starts and ends on a local road, so the funding was key to tackling the “blight” of potholes.

“This is just one part of our unprecedented investment in local road maintenance over the next 5 years,” he added.

“We are giving a record £6bnto local authorities in England that will improve journeys across the regions [between 2015/16 and 2020/21].”


The full list of councils receiving over £1m this year is:

Cornwall

Cumbria

Derbyshire

Devon

Essex

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Kent

Lancashire

Lincolnshire

Norfolk

Northumberland

North Yorkshire

Oxfordshire

Shropshire

Somerset

Staffordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

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