The longest wait for a pothole to be repaired in Shropshire was a whopping nine months, the Liberal Democrats have claimed, as the party blamed a 'postcode lottery' in its latest attack on Tory spending cuts.
The longest wait for a pothole to be repaired in Shropshire was a whopping nine months, the Liberal Democrats have claimed, as the party blamed a "postcode lottery" in its latest attack on Tory spending cuts.The mammoth wait from a pothole being reported to it being repaired took 285 days, according to data obtained by the Lib Dems.
He added: “The FOI asked for the number of potholes that had been reported to the council by members of the public. However, we also undertake regular proactive inspections of our highway network to identify potholes in need of repair, and this represents by far the largest number of potholes that we are aware of and repair, around 80 per cent of the total.
"The recent £60m investment by the council into road maintenance has resulted in an investment in large programmes of surface dressing and resurfacing across the county to better seal the road surface and reduce the impact of weather on the road network – helping to prevent potholes occurring in the first place.
The latest data comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sought to focus on fixing Britain's ailing roads in the run-up to May's local elections. The Lib Dems accused the Government of creating a"pothole postcode lottery" by cutting local authorities' highways maintenance budgets by £500 million since 2020-21 and announcing only a £200 million top-up to the national potholes fund in the Budget.
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