Mr Pothole said current funding levels across the country is “like peeing in the sea”
The estimated cost of completing all work on West Northamptonshire’s roads is more than the amount of additional funding allocated for road repairs across the entire country. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt pledged last Wednesday to increase the fund available to help repair England's roads by £200m - West Northamptonshire Council said resurfacing all of its roads to ensure it has a cost-effective and sustainable network would cost £236.6m.
Mr Morrell was critical of North Northamptonshire Council , which will receive an extra £1.5m from Mr Hunt’s roads fund. In a freedom of information request submitted by the Local Democracy Reporting Service , NNC said it did not know the value of its roads backlog. Coun Phil Larratt, WNC’s cabinet member for environment, transport, highways and waste said "a combination of factors have contributed to difficulties in getting on top of road repairs” in the area, “including historic underfunding and large cost increases”.
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