Nottinghamshire County Council says it does not have data on how often it is returning to potholes after repairing them as one councillor claims the authority is not being "honest" about the issue. A highways review commissioned in the summer of 2021 resulted in the council moving towards a "right-first-time" approach when it came to repairing potholes.
The authority said last December that temporary repairs using ViaFix had decreased by 61% and that the number of complaints had also dropped. But a full council meeting on January 19 saw opposition councillors reading out over 1,000 broken roads and pavements across Nottinghamshire.
One councillor asked the council how many times it was having to re-visit potholes more than once following a repair, but was told the authority did not hold that information. The council has since confirmed this, saying such information would be "difficult to identify."
