Ards and North Down is asking for “urgent” action from Stormont on fair allocation road repair funds, after it emerged the borough had the highest rate of potholes and the lowest rate of funding.
At the recent monthly meeting of Ards and North Down Borough Council, UUP Councillor Philip Smith accepted a DUP amendment on his motion which originally appealed to the council to write to the Stormont Department for Infrastructure, to ask for a roads action plan for the borough, after it emerged Ards and North Down had the highest level of potholes in Northern Ireland.
The DUP addition, forwarded by DUP Councillor Robert Adair, asks that the council writes to the DfI permanent secretary “expressing concern that Ards continues to receive the lowest roads investment budget across NI’s councils and requests an increase in funding to make road repairs and resurfacing a priority.”
