Pothole repairs up by 30% - council

Staffordshire County Council launched an £8m campaign to fix potholes and drainage issues

A campaign to improve roads in Staffordshire has seen an average of 153 potholes repaired a day during the past 10 months, a council has said.

Last year, Staffordshire County Council announced £8m of investment to get road defects repaired more quickly alongside other improvements.

A council meeting heard there had been a 30% increase in the number of potholes repaired since April 2024, compared to the same period the previous year.

Since the start of the Highway Recovery Plan, teams have also cleaned about 35,000 gullies and carried out 2,600 drainage repairs in the county.

James Bailey, assistant director for highways, also told committee members last week that the number of gullies cleaned out had increased by 20%.

Councillor Mark Deaville, cabinet member for strategic highways, said there was a "lot more work to do" but the campaign to fix roads was "still going ahead at speed" across the county.

"We're making great progress and there is a tremendous amount of work being done since we launched the recovery programme back in March last year," he said.

"By the end of this financial year we will have repaired 35,000 potholes, which is a tremendous improvement on last year, and we will have emptied 60,000 gullies."

Deaville added the authority had also completed 37 road resurfacing schemes and 587 roads had also been surface dressed.

He added teams were "putting more emphasis" on drainage as potholes were generally caused by water getting into the surface.

The authority was looking to put more resources into finding and repairing serious and long-standing drainage problems and would work more closely with residents and landowners, he said.

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.