Potholes Reported and Personal Injury Claims - Find a freedom of information request

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information. Please may you provide me with the following details:

1. How many potholes were reported on Lincolnshire roads in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017? Please provide the data broken down by year, for example: Year | Number of potholes reported on the roads

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017

2. How many potholes were repaired by Lincolnshire County Council in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017? Please provide the data broken down by year, for example: Year | Number of potholes repaired by the council

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017

3. Which Lincolnshire roads are currently listed as being in need of resurfacing by the council due to potholes?

4. How much money was spent fixing potholes on Lincolnshire roads in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017? Please provide the data broken down by year, for example: Year | The amount of money spent fixing potholes

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017

5. How many personal injury claims where a pothole was listed as the reason have been brought against the council in the past five years? Please provide the data broken down by year, for example: Year | Number of personal injury claims where potholes were listed as the reason brought against the council

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017

6. How many personal injury claims where a pothole was listed as the reason were settled by the council in the past five years? Please provide the data broken down by year, for example: Year | Number of personal injury claims where potholes were listed as the reason settled by the council

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017

7. How much money did the council pay in personal injury settlements where potholes were listed as the main reason for the claim? Please provide the data broken down by year, for example: Year | The amount of money the council paid in personal injury settlements where potholes were listed as the main reason for the claim

• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017

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3. Please refer to: Highway works programmes – Lincolnshire County Council

 

Select the required attributes in the filer, to the right of the page, like this:

 

4. In terms of financial data, The Council don’t have a specific pothole fund and therefore must make some assumptions at to what the figure would be. This generally is an estimate on an average cost per pothole.

Table 2 below provides a breakdown of the yearly financial information correlating to the above pothole enquiry and works carried out.

Table 2. Estimated Money Spent Fixing Potholes (converted from Financial Year to Calendar Year).

** Final note, in April 2020, Lincolnshire County Council entered into a new Term Maintenance Contract and at this point the way in which the pothole data was measured, recorded, raised and reported changed significantly from the approach used in the previous contract. As such, a like for like comparison of cost per year, based on previous years (or against the two contracts), does not provide a fair reflection of the overall cost per year.

5.

• 2021 - 59
• 2020 - 72
• 2019 - 62
• 2018 - 11
• 2017 - 2

6.

• 2021 - 4
• 2020 - 8
• 2019 - 9
• 2018 – 2
• 2017 – 0

7.

• 2021 - £1,547.00
• 2020 - £13,028.00
• 2019 - £69,642.66
• 2018 - £10,818.00
• 2017- £0.00