Havering Council has been given an extra £404,000 for pothole repairs as a result of additional government funding.
The move comes after the government set aside £168 million to help fix pot holes in the country’s local and major roads.
Councillor Robert Benham, Cabinet Member for Environment, said:
“Potholes are a national problem, and fixing them isn’t cheap, especially for us as we have one of the largest road networks in London, so we’re really very grateful for any additional funding.”
London boroughs were given a total for £10 million, of which, Havering Council received the fourth largest amount.
Havering Council is responsible for maintaining 351 miles of highways and 2031 potholes were repaired in the last financial year.
Last year, the Council spent in the region of £1.6 million maintaining the boroughs roads and footways, which includes, but is not limited to, repairing potholes - that’s the equivalent cost of around 160 Ford Fiestas’, or 1.2 million litres of petrol (at £1.30 a litre).
Earlier this year, the government set aside £140 million to meet the costs of repairs following the severe winter floods, of which, Havering received £266,000.
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