The Cost to Make Potholes Safe - Find a freedom of information request

Information relating to the number of potholes and the cost spent on potholes under your jurisdiction.

 

In particular, are you able to provide me with:

 

The cost to make a pothole safe (temporary repair). Please provide information for the listed years below only.

2022

2023

2024

 

The cost to fully repair a pothole. Please provide information for the listed years below only. 

2022

2023

2024

 

How many potholes were recorded in your jurisdiction for the below years? Please provide information for the listed years below only. 

2022

2023

2024

 

Of those recorded, how many of those were fully repaired or made safe? Please provide information for the listed years below only and separate out by whether they were made safe or fully repaired. 

2022

2023

2024

 

What is the most times the same pothole has been 'made safe' (temporary repair) in one year. Please provide information for the listed years below only. 

2022

2023

2024

  

If your database works under a Fiscal Year calendar, please provide figures to the corresponding fiscal years. Please provide the data in an excel document with separate columns for each year.

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.     LCC do not record the cost of individual pothole repairs, however we are able to show the price for a repair. LCC follows a risk based approach to pothole repairs as set out in our Highways Asset Management Strategy which requires repairs to be carried out at differing response times depending on the risk to the public. Each of these repair times has a separate price and the number of repairs in each category can vary greatly. The prices supplied are the average price across the response range. It should also be noted that LCC carries out an emergency response service which may ‘make safe’ before a physical repair can be carried out.    
Temporary repair

2022 - £29.64
2023 - £31.75
2024 - £33.15
 
2.    See above
Permanent repair
2022 - £49.42  
2023 - £52.94
2024 - £55.28
 
3.    The data provided is for the number of carriageway potholes (not including edge damage) repaired during the Fiscal years identified.
2022 - 30414
2023 - 35367
2024 (Partial year April to 12/02/2025) – 26076

The information provided is purely the pothole numbers we have defined individual completion data for, on a defect by defect basis. Some potholes will be repaired via other workstreams on a time charge or planned scheme basis, where material quantities but not individual pothole numbers are recorded and thus we do not hold that information for release under FOI.
 
 
4. Temporary and Permanent repair percentages are identified below.
Permanent
2022 – 86.94%
2023 – 80.00%
2024 (Partial year April to 12/02/2025) – 69.80%
 
5.    Temporary
2022 – 13.06%
2023 – 20.00%
2024 (Partial year April to 12/02/2025) – 30.20%
 
6.Temporary repairs are required to last for at least 12 months within the LCC specification and any failures would be carried out at the contractors’ expense.