- The number of potholes recorded within your jurisdiction, from public reports.
The highways team do not keep a breakdown as to which relate to potholes only and which relate to other types of road defects. The following figures show the number of enquiries received for all types of road defect. Whilst it is not possible to provide a precise breakdown, most of these will be customers reporting potholes.
2018/19: 955 enquiries
2019/20: 481 enquiries
2020/21: 625 enquiries
2021/22: 415 enquiries
2022/23: 308 enquiries
2023/24: 588 enquiries
- The number of potholes recorded within your jurisdiction from council inspections.
This part of the request is refused under Regulation 12(4)(a) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. The reason for this is the Authority does not hold this information. There is no report available which differentiates whether a road defect has been identified by a customer or via a council inspection.
- The total number of potholes repaired within your jurisdiction annually.
2018: 1,723
2019: 1,435
2020: 1,110
2021: 1,448
2022: 1,102
2023: 1,546
2024 (to 15 February 2024): 231
- 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.
As at 15 February 2024 there are 134 road repairs outstanding.
- 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.
This is set out in the Authority’s Highway Inspection Policy which can be found on the North Tyneside Council website here https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/sites/default/files/web-page-related-files/North%20Tyneside%20Highway%20Inspection%20Policy%20October%202018.pdf
- 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).
|
|
Priority 1 |
Priority 2 |
Priority 3 |
|
2019 |
100% |
99.21% |
88.65% |
|
2020 |
100% |
97.71% |
87.59% |
|
2021 |
100% |
98.89% |
93.01% |
|
2022 |
100 |
99.09% |
82.99% |
|
2023 |
100% |
99.78% |
92.93% |
- The number of pothole repairs completed on time within each category’s allocated timeframe.
2019: 1,415
2020: 1,015
2021: 1,417
2022: 1,032
2023: 1,512