LGA: Road funding spending drop could have paid for 8 million pothole repairs

Saturday, 6 July 2019 00:01

Money councils have been forced to cut from road maintenance funding since 2010 could have paid for the repair of nearly 8 million potholes, analysis by the Local Government Association reveals today. To coincide with the LGA’s Annual Conference in Bournemouth, town hall leaders are calling on the Government to use this year’s Spending Review to deliver a long-term funding plan “to save our roads”. Latest figures show that the amount of money councils have been able to...Request free trial