Defective road surface/potholes (roads only, not pavements) repair costs - Find a freedom of information request

Request

1. Please state how much was spent on repairing defective road surface/potholes (roads only, not pavements) in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22?

2. Please state how much was spent on carriageway resurfacing in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22?

3. How many miles of carriageway resurfacing took place in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22? Please state whether the council predominantly resurfaces using polymer modified stone asphalt, stone mastic asphalt or other?

4. Please state how much was paid out (in £) to drivers making a claim for damage caused to their vehicles due to defective road surface/potholes in 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22?

Decision

I can confirm that some of the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. Our reactive service expenditure includes all fault types such as footways and sign replacements however the defective road surface / potholes forms a large element of this budget.

A number of gangs deliver a blend of work types and for this reason the expenditure is not split out in detail.
 

2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22
£3,129,784 £3,564,666 £3,295,264 £3,152,221

2. Please see below information from the historical budget data, adding the PRN budgets to what was allocated to the surfacing and patching team (2020/21 was the revised budget)

2018/19 - £20,352,642

2019/20 - £22,158,300

2020/21 - £24,819,765

2021/22 - £22,900,101

3. Please see information below, we do not have the information for 2018/19. We use predominantly Hot Rolled Asphalt and 10mm Close Graded Surface Course, with a small amount of Stone Mastic Asphalt.

SUMMARY - ALL TREATMENTS 2021- 22

Treatment

 

Treated Length (Carriageway km)

 

A

Roads

B Roads

C Roads

u/c

Roads

Totals

Reconstruction

24.705

25.926

42.025

49.042

141.698

Overlay

3.024

0.056

0.522

0.467

4.069

Resurfacing

3.153

1.850

3.462

0.264

8.729

Surface Dressing

80.653

30.259

131.356

141.843

384.111

Thin Surfacing (ie micro asphalt slurry seal treatments)

 

 

 

9.599

9.599

Programmed Patching

0.086

0.164

0.283

0.051

0.584

Totals = 

111.621

58.255

177.648

201.266

548.790

SUMMARY - ALL TREATMENTS 2020-21

Treatment

 

Treated Length (Carriageway km)

 

A

Roads

B Roads

C Roads

u/c

Roads

Totals

Reconstruction

20.365

9.006

21.393

37.349

88.113

Overlay

3.713

0.115

0.058

0.225

4.111

Resurfacing

0.432

0.260

0.654

0.329

1.675

Surface Dressing

32.501

30.681

155.463

146.355

365.000

Thin Surfacing (ie micro asphalt slurry seal treatments)

 

 

0.253

5.733

5.986

Programmed Patching

1.410

0.006

0.124

0.090

1.630

Totals = 

58.421

40.068

177.945

190.081

466.515

SUMMARY - ALL TREATMENTS 2019-20

Treatment

 

Treated Length (Carriageway km)

 

A

Roads

B Roads

C Roads

u/c

Roads

Totals

Reconstruction

12.030

8.794

18.713

47.378

86.915

Overlay

0.951

0.810

0.015

0.198

1.974

Resurfacing

1.359

0.667

7.708

11.104

20.838

Surface Dressing

59.458

71.411

201.491

152.779

485.139

Thin Surfacing (ie slurry seal treatments)

Programmed Patching

 

0.064

 

0.453

 

2.800

 

0.962

 

4.279

Totals = 

73.862

82.135

230.727

212.421

599.145

 

4. 2018/2019 – information unavailable as the specific clause for the claim was not recorded.

2019/2020 - information unavailable as the specific clause for the claim was not recorded.

2020/21: £240,996.77

2021/22: £221,950.26

2022/23 (to date): £68,470.98

Reference number
FOI 5787397
Date request received
21/12/22
Date of decision
03/02/23