{"id":676554,"date":"2026-01-06T00:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676554\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:35:16","slug":"nine-welsh-councils-rejecting-almost-every-pothole-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676554\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Welsh councils &#8216;rejecting almost every pothole claim&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2021, there were 1,066 claims for pothole-related damage among the Welsh councils that responded, a figure that rose by 26% in 2024, to 1,347.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Denbighshire and Wrexham were the only two areas to see a significant drop in the number of claims over the three-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But across Wales, the proportion of successful claims dropped from 25% to 21% during that time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across the UK, the number of claims in 2024 is almost twice what it was in 2021, according to RAC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But just 26% of claims led to a payout, with an average sum of \u00a3390 given to claimants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RAC estimates that a typical repair bill for a family car with damage worse than a puncture from a pothole is \u00a3590.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2021, there were 1,066 claims for pothole-related damage among the Welsh councils that responded, a figure that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-676554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115845354539372084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}