Councils in England are being offered a share of £168m funding to repair local roads; on the condition they sign a ‘pothole pledge’.
The £168m Pothole Fund was announced in the March Budget and will enable successful local authorities to repair more than three million potholes. As a condition of funding, local authorities will need to set out how many potholes they will have repaired by March 2015.
Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: ‘I want councils to rise to the challenge and to reward councils who come up with new and better ways of making repairs quickly and effectively.
‘With this new pothole fund councils will need to clearly set out the scale of the work they are doing, and local communities can have certainty that the money is being spent fixing potholes on their local roads.
