'Crater' pothole could be fixed with extra £5m for Buckinghamshire roads

The pothole in Westbury has been dubbed a "crater" by a road repair campaigner

A pothole dubbed a "crater" could be one of those tackled after a council pledged an extra £5m for road repairs.

Buckinghamshire Council has added money from its reserves, meaning £110m has now been set aside for repairs and improvements until 2027.

A pothole near Westbury, which campaigner Mark Morrell described as a "criminal crater", could be among those repaired.

The council said its highways unit would be investigating the defect.

A campaigner said leaving the "crater" any longer would be "criminal"

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Morrell said: "This pothole [in Brackley Road] is now getting deeper and more dangerous.

"You can't avoid it when vehicles travel past [one another] at this location. Real hazard for cyclists with its position in the carriageway."

He added that leaving the "crater" any longer would be "criminal" and called on the council to fix it.

Diana Blamires, the Conservative councillor representing Wing, told a meeting that fixing the roads was one of the top priorities for residents, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

"Residents are rightly annoyed about being jolted along roads pockmarked with potholes," she said.

"The abominable weather last winter led to more potholes in the first three weeks of January than in the whole of the previous year."

However, she went on to praise the work of the council's highways teams, whom she said had been out in all weather trying to fix defects in the county's roads.