- Request
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1. Please can you tell me how many individual potholes you have identified or had reported to you since January 2017? Please break down the figures in an Excel file that lists results by each half year.
2. Please can you also provide me with your annual spend on pothole repairs since January 2017? Please break down the figures in an Excel file that lists results by each half year.
- Decision
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1.
Year
Period
Potholes Repaired *
Pothole Enquiries Received **
2017
Jan - Jun
46652
6292
2017
Jul - Dec
40812
3041
2018
Jan - Jun
29347
21204
2018
Jul - Dec
55794
4811
2019
Jan - Jun
68023
5196
* Individual potholes repaired as part of the Highway Works Term Contract
** Note that multiple individual potholes may have been reported as part of a single enquiry.
2. Lincolnshire County Council reports expenditure on a financial year starting 1 April and ending 31 March. The expenditure below represents the full financial year so starts from the 1 April 2016.
Carriageway Reactive Spend 2016/17: £3,089,192
Carriageway Reactive Spend 2017/18: £3,036,211
Carriageway Reactive Spend 2018/19: £3,129,784
Carriageway Reactive Spend 2019/20: £3,564,666
The figures above represent our expenditure on reactive carriageway maintenance which is largely spent on pothole repairs. Due to the varied nature of works carried out by the gangs that complete these works this is the most accurate figure we hold.
- Reference number
- FOI0644
- Date request received
- 27 September 2019
- Date of decision
- 21 October 2019