- Request
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Please could you provide -
For - September, October, November, December 2023 and January and February 2024
1. Number of potholes reported by month
2. Number of potholes filled by month
3. Cost of filling potholes by month
4. How many compensation claims made for potholes by month Total cost of these claims, by month
5. How cost of pay outs, by month
6. What road / pothole had the most individual claims? How many?
7. What road / pothole incurred the highest value of claims in terms of total cost? How much?
8. What was the largest individual claim financially - where, when and how much and what for?
9. How much was spent defending claims?
- Decision
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I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.
1 and 2.
Fiscal MonthYear
Enquiries received
Jobs completed
September 2023
640
1840
October 2023
963
1958
November 2023
1246
2363
December 2023
1758
1857
January 2024
3105
3662
February 2024
2947
3960
3.
LCC do not calculate the cost of repairs specifically allocated to potholes. There are several 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 several 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 repairs not just potholes, but all costs are assigned at a gang level.
4.
September - 61
October – 89
November - 197
December – 206
January - 317
February - 276
5.
Claims are still being assessed so unable to provide a accurate figure at this time.
6.
Eagle Road, Swinderby with 29 claims to date.
7.
The highest value claim was for A153 Grantham Road at £14,170 but this claim is still under review.
8.
Please see above.
9.
Majority of claims for this period are under assessment and final figures are not available.
- Reference number
- 9163938
- Date request received
- 12 March 2024
- Date of decision
- 2 April 2024