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This is despite local authorities in England and Wales having upped the amount of potholes they filled by 13 per cent in the past year, some 1.7 million potholes.
The report revealed that highway maintenance budgets have increased from an average of £20.7 million to £23.8 million year-on-year, partly due to additional government funding to fix potholes. However, AIA chairman Rick Green warned that spending money to fill in potholes is ‘essentially a failure as it does nothing to improve the resilience of the network’.
Green called for the approach to funding local roads to match the five-year settlements awarded for motorways and major A roads. He said that this would allow local authority highway engineers to ‘plan ahead and implement a more proactive, sustainable and cost effective whole life approach to maintaining the network’.
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