£3m Cash Injection Set To Boost Pothole Repairs

An extra £3m is set to be spent fixing potholes across Leicestershire.

The county council is proposing to re-direct the cash so an additional 30,000 ‘patch repairs’ can be made on roads, cycle paths and pavements.

Plans to invest the money, previously allocated to tackle the impact of the challenging economic climate, are being recommended for approval at a meeting on Friday.

More potholes will be fixed in the cash injection is approved

Councillor Ozzy O’Shea, cabinet member for highways and transport, said: “We’re working really hard to tackle the wear and tear we see on our roads. We’ve got some of the best roads in the country but like other areas, we face an ongoing budget squeeze and growing demand.

“Channelling this one-off money into day-to-day maintenance means we can keep up our good work fixing potholes and repairing defects which we know is really important to our residents.”

A huge preventative programme – known as ‘surface dressing’ – also gets underway this summer and will see more than 600,000 square metres of road treated in a bid to prevent potholes forming in the first place.