'We’re just as frustrated as our residents with the state of some of our roads'
A local authority highways boss has explained why some potholes in a borough’s roads and pavements are repaired and others are not. Blackburn with Darwen’s executive member for growth, Cllr Quesir Mahmood, has launched a campaign to inform residents about the criteria for patching road defects.
Cllr Mahmood said that on footways a pothole needs to be 25 millimetres deep – the same depth as a two-pence coin to be repaired while on a road it needs to be the same depth as a golf ball, 40mm. If a pothole is more than 150mm deep, it will be classed as an emergency and made safe by the next working day – often within two hours of the inspection.Cllr Mahmood said that last year more than 6,700 potholes were repaired in Blackburn with Darwen.
He said: “We’re just as frustrated as our residents with the state of some of our roads. Currently, the council only receives enough funding to re-surface the equivalent of just 1.2 per cent, or just six kilometres, of roads each year.
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