Spent repairing potholes in the financial year 2022 to 2023 - Find a freedom of information request

1. How much money your local authority has spent repairing potholes in the financial year 2022/23.

2. Have you made any use of a JCB PotholePro vehicle for your repairs or do you have plans to do so?

3. If you have made use of a JCB PotholePro vehicle, or have plans to do so, please advise what savings (if any) have been achieved, or you expect to achieve.

1. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) do not calculate the cost of repairs specifically allocated to potholes each year. There are a number of reasons for this; operationally it offers little value to spend time trying to assign costs at this level given the number of repairs undertaken per year but also there are a number of financial difficulties of trying to assign costs of materials and items of plant which are easily identified on a gang basis but further dividing these to specific repair type leads to inaccuracies. The gangs are mixed discipline and undertake a variation of reactive (safety) repairs not just potholes, and LCC don't specifically separate out a budget for potholes. However, LCC is able to make an estimated calculation based on work types from our asset management system and during last financial year it spent around £2.8m on pothole repairs, though this figure does come with a number of caveats.

2. Yes LCC has trialled the JCBPotholePro.

3. During the trial LCC found that the JCBPotholePro was less cost-efficient than using it’s standard equipment. No savings were achieved.