{"id":363936,"date":"2026-01-11T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363936\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:07","slug":"potholes-map-rates-council-road-repair-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363936\/","title":{"rendered":"Potholes map rates council road repair progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government committed \u00a37.3bn in November&#8217;s Budget to fix roads over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The DFT rated 154 local highway authorities as red, amber or green based on road conditions and how well they were using government funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vast majority were rated as amber, meaning they were patching up roads and had preventative measures in place but there was still room for improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire &#8211; once rated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czx1p7r0yg6o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;pothole capital of the UK&#8221; <\/a>&#8211;  scored the lowest for road maintenance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December, the RAC found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czx1p7r0yg6o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derbyshire had received the biggest increase in claims <\/a>for compensation for potholes between 2021 and 2024. The council&#8217;s cabinet member for potholes, highways and transport, Charlotte Hill, said claims had fallen by 72% since May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councils rated red will receive extra support, including an additional \u00a3300,000 each, to help them improve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said that future funding would be &#8220;linked to performance&#8221; to encourage councils to use &#8220;taxpayer money efficiently to repair and maintain their roads before potholes form&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government committed \u00a37.3bn in November&#8217;s Budget to fix roads over the next four years. The DFT rated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-363936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}