{"id":688312,"date":"2026-01-11T06:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688312\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:02:11","slug":"potholes-map-rates-council-road-repair-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688312\/","title":{"rendered":"Potholes map rates council road repair progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government committed \u00a37.3bn in November’s Budget to fix roads over the next four years.<\/p>\n

The DFT rated <\/b>154 local highway authorities as red, amber or green based on road conditions and how well they were using government funds.<\/p>\n

The vast majority were rated as amber, meaning they were patching up roads and had preventative measures in place but there was still room for improvement.<\/p>\n

Derbyshire – once rated the “pothole capital of the UK” <\/a>– scored the lowest for road maintenance.<\/p>\n

In December, the RAC found that Derbyshire had received the biggest increase in claims <\/a>for compensation for potholes between 2021 and 2024. The council’s cabinet member for potholes, highways and transport, Charlotte Hill, said claims had fallen by 72% since May 2025.<\/p>\n

Councils rated red will receive extra support, including an additional \u00a3300,000 each, to help them improve.<\/p>\n

The government said that future funding would be “linked to performance” to encourage councils to use “taxpayer money efficiently to repair and maintain their roads before potholes form”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government committed \u00a37.3bn in November’s Budget to fix roads over the next four years. The DFT rated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-688312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115874951584126687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688312","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=688312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}