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Harry Smith-Haggett with his ‘Pretty Pot Holes’ hi vis.<\/p>\n
His efforts have drawn the attention of more than nine million people on TikTok – as well as the support of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage<\/a>, who turned up to transform a road in Staffordshire<\/a> with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n The landscaper and decorator first began his war on potholes because of a particularly frustrating one near his home in Horsham, West Sussex, which never seemed to get fixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n He decided to plant a flower inside the pothole in the hopes of drawing attention to it, and, just two days later, it had been tarmacked over.\u00a0<\/p>\n This small victory motivated Harry to keep going, and now, he has filled in hundreds of potholes across the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n Harry, who films himself planting the flowers wearing a customised pink hi-vis vest which reads ‘Pretty Pot Holes’, said: “Originally it started because there was one specific pothole near my house which I was fed up with.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I had to go around it everyday and it never got filled. So I wanted to do something about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I wanted to fill it with concrete myself but I knew that legally I couldn’t – so I just decided to put a plant in there.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I never planned to start this massive pothole journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n “But I planted the flowers on Saturday and by Monday morning, the pothole had been tarmacked.\u00a0<\/p>\n “So I thought, ‘This worked. I might do a few more.’\u00a0<\/p>\n “I posted on TikTok and started getting a few views, and now, I’ve been all over.\u00a0<\/p>\n “People send me street names to go to and I head over to plant plants in the few spare minutes I have.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Recently, Harry has targeted potholes directly outside Horsham Police Station – filling them with red and purple flowers.\u00a0<\/p>\n He said: “I first went back in September and a geezer who drove up beside me wasn’t very happy with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n “But I noticed the other day that the potholes were still there so I thought I’d go back.\u00a0<\/p>\n “This time, I went into the police station and spoke to an officer. He said: ‘Crack on, I hope the plants are still there when I leave work.'”\u00a0<\/p>\n Another of Harry’s recent stunts involved MP Nigel Farage, who joined in with a planting session in Staffordshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the video, Farage asks Harry, who goes by harry_pretty_potholes<\/a> on social media, “What are you doing here, mate?”<\/p>\n Harry said: “I’m just filling these potholes in, Nigel. I don’t have the licence to tarmac and I don’t have the licence to alter the road surface, so I thought I would make them look pretty.”<\/p>\n Farage calls the work “amazing” – and then helps Harry plant the last pothole.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a separate video, also posted on Harry’s page, the politician says: “Every county council in Britain should be watching this man. He is shaming and embarrassing them.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking about the reaction he gets online, Harry claimed it’s “95 per cent positive”.\u00a0<\/p>\n He said: “No one likes potholes so it’s pretty hard to hate what I’m doing.<\/p>\n \u201cThere’s the odd person who says I should just report the potholes – but I’ve spoken to people who have been reporting a pothole for three years and nothing gets done.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Whereas through the plants, I’ve had loads of potholes filled.\u00a0<\/p>\n “So yeah, it’s 95 per cent positive.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I’m just hoping to make people smile – and get some roads fixed along the way.”<\/p>\n Have you got a video you want to share with our readers? You can now send it to us online via YourWorld at\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.yourworld.net\/submit\/<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0It’s free to use and, once checked, your footage will appear on our website.<\/strong><\/p>\n