Budget to Fix Potholes

I am making a request under the Freedom of Information Act to request the following information

 

1) What is your annual budget to fix potholes for 2025?

2) The number of known/reported potholes within your jurisdiction from January - June 2025

3) The total number of known/reported potholes within your jurisdiction between June 2022 and June 2025, split per calendar year.

4) How much money has been spent on fixing potholes since January 2025 to date (June 2025)?

I have detailed below the information that is being released to you. 

1. We have a total annual budget for road maintenance of £65m for 2025/2026 financial year. This includes all full carriageway and footway resurfacing/reconstruction/recycling schemes, preventative maintenance, minor works and safety related repairs.

2. 13,331 potholes have been repaired and 6727 potholes have been reported in this period.

3. The following number of pothole reports were received:

2022 - 10617

2023 - 17160

2024 - 17379

2025 - 6727

The following number of pothole jobs were completed indicating the total number of potholes that we were aware of:

2022 - 29823

2023 - 36075

2024 - 34613

2025 - 15694

4. LCC (Lincolnshire County Council) do not record the cost of individual pothole repairs. 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. It is not possible to give exact expenditure as LCC operates a complete reactive service and costs are not separated into carriageway pothole repairs only.