Pothole Repairs

1. What is the longest planned time between a logged defect report and actual inspection?

2. What is the longest planned time between agreeing a repair is required and carrying out that repair?

3. What is your process to ensure a road is made safe in under 2 hours from reporting?

4. For driven Section 58 inspections, do you use geolocating to log the position and sizes of potholes?

5. After driven S58 inspections, do you log outcomes in the highways database?

6. For driven S58 inspections, do you regularly record hazards due to vegetation, drainage or poor road signs?

7. What is the largest intervention criteria size of pothole before repair action is taken? i.e. X cm wide, Y cm long, Z cm deep.

8. Aside from reporting defects via FixMyStreet or similar, do volunteers supplement your own officer/ contractor S58 inspections?

9. How many street sweeping machines do you have access to?

10. What proportion of your roads is swept at least every three months?

11. What proportion of non-channel road is swept, i.e. at junctions and roundabouts?

12. What proportion of your potholes are filled by your-salaried teams compared with contractors?

1. Highways Officers are required to inspect a reported fault within 10 working days.

2. Dependant on the hierarchy of road, and in terms of "reactive repairs" eg potholes this can range from 24hrs through to inclusion in a "planned" programme of work. Anything on a "planned" programme of work will be delivered within the same financial year as it is ordered.

Please see page 105 onwards of this document: Highways infrastructure asset management plan 2024

3. Please see the below extract taken from page 105 Appendix B of this document: Highways infrastructure asset management plan 2024

Faults on higher hierarchy roads come through the system flagged as a "priority" and will be inspected accordingly.

4. Yes.

5. Yes.

6. Yes.

7. A depth measurement only applies. Potholes deeper than 40mm will be identified for repair, unless there are hierarchy 1/2 footways adjacent in which case a carriageway pothole deeper than 25mm will be repaired. 

8. No.

9. None directly.

10. Street sweeping is a function delivered by District Councils. Lincolnshire County Council does not routinely sweep any part of the road network. 

11.Please see above