UK potholes map: Find out if your area is the worst-hit as Starmer pledges £1.6bn to fix ‘pothole plague’

Sir Keir Starmer has told section councils they indispensable beryllium they are tackling potholes oregon look losing the currency to hole them.

Labour ministers “want to get our sleeves rolled up” and hole potholes for good, the premier curate said connected Monday, arsenic helium announced an further £4.8 cardinal of backing to transportation retired enactment connected motorways and large A-roads.

His ultimatum to cash-strapped authorities comes arsenic the fig of potholes successful the UK continues to grow. The backlog successful repairs present sits astatine £17 billion, investigation from the The Local Government Association (LGA) has found.

Last year, information obtained by the Liberal Democrats revealed the worst-hit areas for potholes successful the UK. The figures revealed that Derbyshire was the country with the astir potholes, with a monolithic 90,596. Lancashire was 2nd with 67,439, and Northumberland 3rd with 51,703, arsenic a representation reveals the afloat standard of the contented connected UK roads.

Local authorities volition commencement to get their stock of £1.6 cardinal successful road attraction backing confirmed past year, up £500 cardinal from the erstwhile year, successful mid-April.

But from Monday, they volition beryllium required to people yearly advancement reports oregon look having backing withheld.

The premier curate said: “British radical are bored of seeing their politicians aimlessly pointing astatine potholes with nary existent program to hole them. That ends with us.

“We’ve done our portion by handing councils the currency and certainty they request – present it’s up to them to get connected with the job, enactment that wealth to usage and beryllium they’re delivering for their communities.”

The reports volition besides person to item what percent of roads are successful what condition, amusement what councils are spending connected pothole prevention and outline plans looking up to wetter winters that marque potholes worse.

Councillor Adam Hug, the LGA’s transport spokesperson, said: “Councils already walk much than they person from cardinal authorities connected tackling potholes and repairing our roads.

“However, it’s successful everyone’s interests to guarantee that nationalist wealth is good spent.

“This includes the Government playing its afloat portion by utilizing the Spending Review to guarantee that councils person sufficient, semipermanent backing certainty, truthful they tin absorption their efforts connected overmuch much cost-effective, preventative measures alternatively than reactively fixing potholes, which is much expensive.”

The Liberal Democrats said determination is simply a immense situation to hole the country’s roads and tackle the repair backlog. The party’s transport spokesperson Paul Kohler said: “We indispensable guarantee that the close magnitude of wealth is going wherever it is needed. The Government indispensable empower our section councillors who are champion placed to marque decisions astir what needs fixing successful their communities.”