Devon County Council has announced today (4 September) that it will be embarking on a seven-week trial of changes to its pothole repair procedures.
At today’s Full Council meeting, councillors heard that a pilot will get underway from Monday 15 September in parts of Barnstaple as well as west Devon areas of Hatherleigh, Chagford and North Tawton.
Extra funding to help repair Devon’s battered roads has been approved but comes as the county’s backlog of repairs hits an estimated £200 million.
Thanks to savings accrued during the year and a budget underspend, Devon is now able to put £12 million extra into maintaining the county’s roads, notably repairing its deluge of potholes and improving drainage issues.
More than 65 road repair schemes in Devon are being brought forward with additional funding recently announced by Government.
Devon County Council is receiving an extra £6.663 million for highway maintenance this financial year.
The money is a share of the Government’s £8.3 billion investment in roads over the next 11 years using funds redirected from the cancelled HS2 rail line...
The coronavirus lockdown and its after-effects are likely to impact on the delivery of the County Council’s highway maintenance schemes this year, councillors heard today (Wednesday 13 May).
The caution comes as Devon County Council’s Cabinet set out the authority’s capital and revenue budgets for highway maintenance for the current financial year.
Devon's roads contain so many potholes that it's one of the highest places for pothole-related compensation in the UK, according to figures acquired in a Freedom Of Information Act request.
The UK company Lease Car sent out an FOI request to Devon County Council to discover how much they have had to pay in compensation claims related to pothole damage.
Plymouth’s extensive resurfacing programme is paying off as the amount of claims for compensation for pothole damage has dropped by more than £100,000 in a year.
Plymouth City Council has spent £5 million this year on an extensive road resurfacing programme. A new report by the RAC Foundation shows that while in 2014/15 Plymouth City Council received 447 successful claims for...
A £9.1 million programme to restore some of the roads damaged during the wettest winter on record has been announced by Devon County Council.
The County Council has developed a programme of almost 400 repair schemes, using the Pothole Repair Funding that Devon received from central Government, to improve the surface or drainage resilience of more than 80 miles (129 km) of roads in the...
Devon County Council has received almost £7 million to help repair the damage caused to the county’s roads by the severe winter weather.
The additional funding from the Department for Transport is a share of £183.5 million of extra funding made available by the government to help with much needed road repairs following the wettest winter on record.
