It has been blamed on the weatherMore than 1,500 of the most serious potholes required urgent repairs in Coventry last year – a huge 65 per cent rise year-on-year.
Coventry City Council has blamed the increase on a “very wet winter” after the wettest nine months on record was recorded between June 2019 and February this year.
A total of 1,528 ‘priority one’ potholes were reported to the authority across 2019/20 compared to 925 in the previous year.
Priority one potholes are considered to require priority attention and, if required, may need be made safe at the time of the inspection to prevent injury.
The city council said it aims to repair problems within five working days.
“This increase is attributed to the effect of the very wet winter,” an annual One Coventry report to councillors said on Wednesday.
A council spokesman added:” We aim to deal with priority one defects within five working days and so any defect identified as a priority one by the highways inspectors team in 2019 will have been repaired.”
Last year, Coventry council was branded the slowest council in Britain when it comes to fixing serious potholes.
Research from the RAC Foundation found the authority carries out repairs within five working days whereas the average for most councils was two hours.