Please provide the following information:
1. The cost to make a pothole safe (temporary repair). Please provide information for the listed years below only.
2022
2023
2024
2. The cost to fully repair a pothole. Please provide information for the listed years below only.
2022
2023
2024
In response to questions 1 and 2, Devon County Council (DCC) does not hold information in the form of “fully repair” or “make safe” only that a defect repair has been completed in accordance with the County Council’s Highway Safety Policy. We do not hold information on the cost of individual pothole repairs. Charging and paying for defect repairs is based on cost of labour plant and materials for a given geographical area for the billing period.
3. How many potholes were recorded in your jurisdiction for the below years? Please provide information for the listed years below only.
2022: 36,034
2023: 52,839
2024: 63,384
4. Of those recorded, how many of those were fully repaired or made safe? Please provide information for the listed years below only and separate out by whether they were made safe or fully repaired.
2022
2023
2024
DCC does not hold information in the form of “fully repaired” or “made safe” only that a defect repair has been completed in accordance with the County Council’s Highway Safety Policy
5. What is the most times the same pothole has been ‘made safe’ (temporary repair) in one year. Please provide information for the listed years below only.
2022
2023
2024
DCC does not hold readily accessible information on numbers and locations of potholes that have been subject to more than one repair over a set time period. This is due to limitations in the GPS technology we use in the identification of pothole defects, which can only be accurate to a certain distance and would not be sufficient to enable us to overlay new defects on previously repaired ones to the required degree of accuracy to be sure they are the same. Even if we were able to do this there would be further limitations around certainty that repairs have failed or if adjacent road surface has since deteriorated, leading to further repairs required.