Potholes
Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,
Can I please request, in the form of a spreadsheet such as Excel or CSV file, information on potholes reported to and repaired by the council since 2017.
1. The total number of potholes reported to the council, broken down by month, for the calendar years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 (to date).
2. The total number of potholes repaired by the council, broken down by month, for the calendar years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 (to date).
3. The total amount of money paid out in compensation due to potholes, broken down by calendar year in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 (to date).
4. The amount of money spent by the council on fixing potholes, broken down by calendar year in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 (to date).
If this request cannot be met within the cost limits for Freedom of Information requests, please can you provide me with advice and assistance on how I may refine my request.
Yours faithfully,
Aimee Stanton
Dear Ms Stanton
Please see our response to your enquiry below and accept our apologies for
the delay.
1. The total number of potholes reported to the council, broken down by
month, for the calendar years
┌────────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┐
│ │ 2017 │ 2018 │ 2019│ 2020 │ 2021 │ 2022 │ 2023 │
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│January │ 73 │ 159 │ 71│ 124│ 134│ 43│ 106│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│February │ 58 │ 121 │ 72│ 81│ 93│ 54│ 84│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│March │ 127 │ 206 │ 121│ 76│ 77│ 70│ 154│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│April │ 60 │ 210 │ 88│ 12│ 86│ 68│ 93│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│May │ 48 │ 126 │ 72│ 20│ 100│ 79│ 68│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│June │ 49 │ 71 │ 61│ 30│ 96│ 46│ 45│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│July │ 65 │ 70 │ 34│ 45│ 114│ 45│ 49│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│August │ 32 │ 51 │ 43│ 37│ 71│ 26│ 50│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│September │ 55 │ 55 │ 60│ 33│ 66│ 21│ 33│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│October │ 39 │ 53 │ 62│ 39│ 64│ 62│ 32│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│November │ 35 │ 34 │ 57│ 25│ 62│ 40│ 59│
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
│December │ 59 │ 59 │ 59│ 45│ 63│ 57│ │
├────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┤
└────────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┘
2. The total number of potholes repaired by the council, broken down by
month, for the calendar years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023
(to date).
┌───────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│ │ 2019 2020 2021 │
│ │2022 2023 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│January │ 30 46 │
│ │39 29 56 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│February │ 29 49 │
│ │36 36 54 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│March │ 27 41 │
│ │49 73 44 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│April │ 33 23 │
│ │35 57 85 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│May │ 54 9 │
│ │171 55 97 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│June │ 27 5 │
│ │170 34 55 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│July │ 23 25 │
│ │152 69 70 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│August │ 11 21 │
│ │ 115 31 60 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│September │ 28 16 │
│ │125 36 58 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│October │ 28 18 │
│ │110 34 55 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│November │ 17 14 │
│ │99 65 82 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│December │ 19 14 │
│ │107 64 47 so │
│ │far │
└───────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
3. The total amount of money paid out in compensation due to potholes,
broken down by calendar year in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and
2023 (to date).
2018/19 – £227.63. 2019/20 – £518.82. 2020/21 – £0. 2021/2022 – £1224.19.
2022/23 – £0.
4. The amount of money spent by the council on fixing potholes, broken
down by calendar year in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 (to
date).
We don’t have a specific pothole budget in revenue, but we have £147,000
to spend on carriageways
Yours sincerely
Lynette Paterson
Principal Information Management Officer
Finance – Digital and Improvement
Wirral Council
PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ
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