The Pothole Partnership says that a radical new approach is needed, including 5-year warranties on every non-emergency pothole repair.
The Partnership:
- issues new data revealing AA called out to 613,638 pothole incidents in 2025 – an average of 1,681 every day – including 58,380 last January and 58,275 in December;
- welcomes government’s new traffic light system of monitoring local council performance on fixing potholes BUT says radical new approach is needed;
- proposes that councils and contractors should be compelled to issue 5-year warranties on every non-emergency pothole repair;
- issues reminder that while potholes can damage cars, they put the lives of cyclists and motorcyclists at risk;
- urges greater use of innovation to make repairs permanent, in place of temporary manual ‘patch and run’ fixes which need re-visiting within months or weeks.
The Pothole Partnership – founded by the AA, JCB, British Cycling, and the National Motorcyclists Council – is today calling for a step change in road maintenance standards and wants to see a minimum five-year warranty issued for every non-emergency pothole repair.
The cross-transport sector partnership is using National Pothole Day on January 15th to call on local authorities and their contractors to put an end to the policy of short-term temporary fixes to potholes that have to be repaired again within months or even weeks.
Read more in the NMC Press Release…
https://www.uknmc.org/news/pothole-partnership-calls-for-5-year-warranties-on-pothole-repairs
