Potholes

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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

InfoMgr, FinDMT,

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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