Potholes Recorded - Freedom of information requests
Title or Description
Potholes Recorded
FOI Number
2024152
Date Received
30/01/2024
Type of Request
EIR
Request or Question
I am after information relating to the number of potholes reported and repaired in the last five years within your jurisdiction.
In particular, are you able to provide me with:
1) a. The number of potholes recorded within your jurisdiction, from public reports. Please provide figures for each of the following years:
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
b. The number of potholes recorded within your jurisdiction from council inspections. Please provide figures for each of the following years:
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2) The total number of potholes repaired within your jurisdiction annually. Please provide figures for each of the following years:
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
3) The number of potholes within your jurisdiction that have been reported to you or recorded but have not yet been repaired. Please provide the most recent data.
4) a. Could you provide a list of how you categorise potholes in terms of urgency required for repair, and the timeframes in which potholes in each of the categories are expected to be repaired.
b. The percentage of potholes repaired under each category that met the category target (e.g. 50% of category 1 potholes were repaired within the expected 2-hour timeframe).
Please provide figures for each of the following years:
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
c. The number of pothole repairs completed on time within each category’s allocated timeframe. Please provide figures for each of the following years:
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
If your database works under a Fiscal Year, please provide figures to the corresponding fiscal years. If possible, please provide the data in an Excel document with separate columns for each year.
Response
2019 – 2,240
2020 – 3,145
2021 – 2,466
2022 – 1,163
2023 – 2,222
The data for the recording of potholes isn’t stored in a manner which is accessible and would enable us to accurately report on the number of defects repaired. Therefore we give notice under 10(4)(a) of EI(S)R 2004 and declare the information is not held.
In 2019-20, the data for the repairs of potholes isn’t stored in a manner which is accessible and would enable us to accurately report on the number of defects repaired. Therefore we give notice under 10(4)(a) of EI(S)R 2004 and declare the information is not held.
In 2020-21, the data for the repairs of potholes isn’t stored in a manner which is accessible and would enable us to accurately report on the number of defects repaired. Therefore we give notice under 10(4)(a) of EI(S)R 2004 and declare the information is not held.
2021-22 we repaired 54055 potholes
2022-23 we repaired 53317 potholes
2023-24 to date we have repaired 35397 potholes
The data for the recording and repairs of potholes isn’t stored in a manner which is accessible and would enable us to accurately report on the number of defects repaired. Therefore we give notice under 10(4)(a) of EI(S)R 2004 and declare the information is not held
A copy of the Standards for Safety Inspection Report is attached.
The data for the recording and repairs of potholes isn’t stored in a manner which is accessible and would enable us to accurately report on the number of defects repaired. Therefore we give notice under 10(4)(a) of EI(S)R 2004 and declare the information is not held.
The data for the repairs of potholes isn’t stored in a manner which is accessible and would enable us to accurately report on the number of defects repaired. Therefore we give notice under 10(4)(a) of EI(S)R 2004 and declare the information is not held.
The Council are in the process of developing a digital Asset Management System that will allow greater detail to be recorded for specific defects and repairs in the future.
