Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA)

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One third of local roads to fail within next five years

Alarm report lays bare state of local roads, while separate research from Kwik Fit shows drivers facing £1.7bn repair bill.

SMR 18 Mar

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Councils get £1.6bn to fix 7 million potholes

Transport secretary also announces a clampdown on disruptive street works, doubling fixed penalty notices for utility companies who fail to comply with rules.

potholes 20 Dec

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DfT funding and understanding of state of local roads slammed

A new ‘value for money’ report from the National Audit Office criticises the DfT’s understanding of the scale of the problem and the way it allocates cash.

Department for Transport 23 Jul

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Pothole payouts double but councils reject ‘most’ claims

Compensation paid by councils to motorists suffering pothole damage to their cars surpassed £1 million last year, new research suggests.

potholes 20 Jun

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Roads to be resurfaced thanks to HS2 cash revealed

Local authorities have published which roads will benefit from the first tranche of the Government’s £8.3 billion package of reallocated HS2 funding.

Department for Transport 10 Apr

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Pothole repair bill hits £16.3bn | Half of roads 15 years from failure

The majority of local roads are 15 years from structural failure, with councils facing a shortfall of £16.3 billion to fix carriageways plagued by potholes.

potholes 19 Mar

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Pothole damage to vehicles at record high

Pothole damage to vehicles cost a staggering £474 million in the past year, according to new figures released on National Pothole Day.

SMR 15 Jan

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LGA wants share of fuel duty to improve UK roads

Figures from the OECD show that £4bn was spent in 2006 on UK local road maintenance compared with £2bn in 2019 - the last year of comparable data available.

potholes 14 Aug

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Pothole damage leaves £1.3bn vehicle repair bill

The cost of repairs to vehicles suffering pothole damage over the past 12 months has been revealed in new research published by Kwik Fit.

31 Mar

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Fleets help Government map problem potholes on UK roads

Deliveroo, Uber, Tesco and Ocado will help identify hot-spots for pothole repairs in a data-driven review launched by the Department for Transport (DfT).

27 Aug

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Coronavirus: £100m funding for local roads to help economic recovery

Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, confirmed 29 projects will benefit from the investment.

1 Jul

Car driving along a stretch of road covered in potholes

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MPs call for fund to address ‘plague of potholes’

Long-term funding settlement essential to local roads maintenance, says Transport Select Committee.

1 Jul

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Use fuel duty to pay for pothole repairs, say motoring groups

Local authorities are filling a pothole every 17 seconds, but still paid out £6.9m in pothole compensation claims, according to this year’s ALARM survey.

26 Mar

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Long-term funding plan for local roads needed, says AIA

The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s says that over the past decade, cash-strapped local authorities have spent more than £1bn on simply filling in potholes.

11 Feb