Pothole reports and repairs
Dear Newport City Council,
I am requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding potholes in the council area. I understand different councils may define potholes and repairs differently, so I would appreciate clarification if your council applies a specific threshold for logging or repairing potholes.
I would like to request the following data for the past five calendar years (2020–2024):
1. The number of potholes recorded each year, including potholes reported by the public and confirmed through council inspections (if these are reported differently)
2. The number of individual potholes repaired each year, including temporary repairs (e.g., patching) and permanent repairs (e.g., resurfacing). Note this refers to the number of individual potholes that were repaired, not the total number of repairs.
3. The total annual cost of pothole repairs, if available.
If the data is recorded differently, I would appreciate any comparable figures you can provide, along with a brief explanation of how pothole reports and repairs are logged in your system.
If this request exceeds the cost limit under the FOI Act, please let me know how it may be refined to remain within the statutory limits.
Thank you for your help; please let me know if you require any clarification or have any questions.
All the best,
Jamie Dixon
Prynhawn Da/Good Afternoon
Thank you for your request for information about:
FOI - Pothole reports and repairs
This request has been formally logged and has been assigned the reference
REF506
You should receive a reply to your request within the statutory time limit
of 20 working days.
Please remember to quote the reference number REF506 in any future
communications.
Yours sincerely,
Information Management
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unig a gall fod yn gyfrinachol, yn destun ragorfraint gyfreithiol neu
broffesiynol, neu fel arall wedi’i diogelu rhag cael ei rhyddhau. Os nad
chi yw derbynnydd bwriadedig y neges hon, a fyddech cystal â rhoi gwybod
i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a pheidio â datgelu, dosbarthu neu gopïo’r e-bost i
unrhyw barti arall. Mae’r e-bost hon ac unrhyw ffeiliau atodedig yn eiddo
i Gyngor Dinas Casnewydd.
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i’r Cyngor fonitro a darllen unrhyw e-byst o’r fath at ddibenion
cydymffurfio â diogelwch ac â deddfwriaeth. I weld yr ymwadiad llawn ewch
i http://www.newport.gov.uk/ymwadiad
Bore Da/Good Morning,
Thank you for your recent request for information which we are dealing
with under the Freedom of Information Act.
In order to process this request further we need to clarify the following:
Due to the way in which we record potholes we are unable to provide a
specific number of potholes recorded by the public and through
inspections.
We can provide figures of the number reported to us by the public,
although the figures may include multiple reports of the same pothole.
The records of potholes by inspection would not be easily obtained as we
would need to go through every single inspection and this would take over
18hrs.
We could provide the number of work orders raised which would provide
figures of potholes that were at the point of intervention. This figure
would include those reported by the public and picked up on inspections.
However please note not all potholes reported by the public would be at
intervention level so those would not be included in that figure.
Could you please advise which figures you would like us to provide?
Your request will be placed on hold until we receive your response.
If we do not receive a response by 03/03/25 we will close your request.
If after that time you still require the information please resubmit a new
FOI request.
For future reference, all Freedom of Information requests can now be
submitted via the link below.
[1]www.newport.gov.uk/foi
Regards
Sarah Jones
Information Management
Mae’r Cyngor yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg, Saesneg neu yn y ddwy
iaith. Byddwn yn cyfathrebu â chi yn ôl eich dewis. Ni fydd gohebu yn
Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi.
The Council welcomes correspondence in English or Welsh or both, and will
respond to you according to your preference. Corresponding in Welsh will
not lead to delay.
Disclaimer/Ymwadiad
This email contains information intended for the addressee only and may be
confidential, the subject of legal or professional privilege, or be
otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient
of this message, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose,
distribute or copy the email to any other party. This email and any
attached file are the property of Newport City Council.
When you email Newport City Council, you consent to the Council monitoring
and reading any such emails for the purposes of security and legislative
compliance. For the full disclaimer please access
http://www.newport.gov.uk/disclaimer.
Mae'r e-bost hwn yn cynnwys gwybodaeth y bwriedir ar gyfer y derbynnydd yn
unig a gall fod yn gyfrinachol, yn destun ragorfraint gyfreithiol neu
broffesiynol, neu fel arall wedi’i diogelu rhag cael ei rhyddhau. Os nad
chi yw derbynnydd bwriadedig y neges hon, a fyddech cystal â rhoi gwybod
i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a pheidio â datgelu, dosbarthu neu gopïo’r e-bost i
unrhyw barti arall. Mae’r e-bost hon ac unrhyw ffeiliau atodedig yn eiddo
i Gyngor Dinas Casnewydd.
Pan fyddwch yn anfon e-bost at Gyngor Dinas Casnewydd, rydych yn cydsynio
i’r Cyngor fonitro a darllen unrhyw e-byst o’r fath at ddibenion
cydymffurfio â diogelwch ac â deddfwriaeth. I weld yr ymwadiad llawn ewch
i http://www.newport.gov.uk/ymwadiad
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