FOI Request - Monthly Data on Potholes

Request 101003895028

1) Please provide the number of potholes filled in each month from November 2021 to November 2025. These should be the same figures you use to compile the annual ‘Potholes Repaired’ numbers for the Local Highway Maintenance and Transparency Reports but broken down per month.

Please add in information about whether the methodology for how you collect these figures has changed.

2) Please provide also the number of potholes reported (both by the public and by your own inspectors) in each month from November 2021 to November 2025.

Please add in information about whether the methodology for how you collect these figures changed at any point.

Please provide such data in the format below, ideally as a spreadsheet.

Potholes Filled In
2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 January February March April May June July August September October November December

Potholes Reported
2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 January February March April May June July August September October November December

 

Response 09-01-2026

1. 

  January February March April May June July August September October November December
2021 - - - - - - - - - - 172 525
2022 314 203 774 372 307 202 503 344 194 250 373 130
2023 488 753 840 832 424 321 652 633 358 420 400 404
2024 604 988 813 1204 687 442 723 918 449 450 322 282
2025 476 986 782 498 795 565 720 311 279 238 259 -

Please note - The figure provided is the number of Carriageway Defect or Pothole work orders that were completed, this could be for 1 or multiple defects per instruction.

 

2. 

  January February March April May June July August September October November December
2021 - - - - - - - - - - 469 268
2022 357 418 562 343 407 446 314 340 425 187 312 192
2023 581 844 627 906 893 647 246 413 373 284 469 249
2024 763 1263 769 989 910 871 462 593 492 244 415 239
2025 725 726 483 508 803 756 350 345 305 175 376 -

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