Instarmac road repair expert asks: “Pothole callouts are five times higher than 2025 – why are our roads getting worse?”
In February 2026, the RAC recorded an average of 225 pothole-related breakdown reports every single day – more than five times the daily average of 43 seen across the whole of 2025. In that month alone, 6,290 drivers contacted the RAC after hitting a pothole, compared to 1,842 in February 2025, says Richard Moss, Road […]
Weather-damaged roads in Peterborough to be repaired
Highways improvements will be carried out across Peterborough to help repair road surfaces which have deteriorated due to extreme weather. Cabinet members today approved plans to award a works order of £1 million to the authority’s highways partner, M Group, to carry out a series of jobs aimed at treating roads across the council’s area […]
Nottinghamshire lists the 44 worst roads in the county ahead of £11 million repair programme
Nottinghamshire County Council has published a list of 44 of the worst roads in the county which are due to be repaired. Nottinghamshire County Council is set to add 44 major resurfacing schemes to its 2026/27 highways capital maintenance programme as part of an £11m “Worst First” package for roads requested by elected members, says […]
Bradford set to receive additional £3 million to tackle potholes
The City of Bradford is likely to get an extra £3 million to help fill the district’s potholes in the coming year. West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) are proposing to allocate over £15m in funding for highway maintenance works at a meeting next Thursday, says the Telegraph & Argus. The money, which tops up existing […]
Oxfordshire trialling 15 different types of pothole repair techniques
Oxfordshire County Council and its highways contractor M Group have used Wildmere Road in Banbury as a test site to trial 15 different methods of filling in potholes or ‘patching’ minor defects. Wildmere Road was closed and a 700-metre stretch was divided into sections. Each section had a different type of pothole or patch repair […]
Caerphilly hopes resurfacing scheme will curb costly pothole repairs
Caerphilly Council will turn to its planned road resurfacing programme in a bid to reduce the number of emergency pothole repairs. Current funding levels would allow each borough road to be resurfaced every 97 years on average, according to a new report, says the Caerphilly Observer. It warns “the average renewal time for carriageways in […]
One in four pothole claims ends in a write-off, say insurers
New data from insurance firm Aviva suggests that a quarter of all pothole-related motor claims in the UK ends in a total write-off of the vehjcl;e. The figures put a sharp focus on a road network that insurers say is increasingly costly to operate around. According to Insurance Business, the insurer analysed claims from January 2023 to […]
Thurrock announces summer ‘pothole blitz’
Two new initiatives will see teams blitzing Thurrock’s road network to find and repair potholes, with thousands of defects set to be fixed before the cold winter months arrive. Road repair teams will conduct a road-by-road ‘find and fix’ programme to carry out pothole repairs. In late June a 12=week programme of Jet Patching smaller […]
Tameside approves £45 million maintenance investment
Tameside Council in Greater Manchester will spend £45 million over the next five years upgrading its roads, pavements, and other highway infrastructure like streetlights. The push for more proactive maintenance will, the council hopes, reduce the amount spent on emergency repairs by around £85m over the next decade. Since 2021, the cost of pothole repairs […]
Government issues new guidance for councils to end ‘patch up’ pothole fixes
Councils must prove they are doing more to fix potholes and future-proof roads under tough new reporting requirements issued by the government. For the first time councils will need to demonstrate publicly how well they repair their roads and what they are doing to avoid repeat visits to the same stretch of asphalt – encouraging full […]