Councils will lose cash if they fail to fix potholes

Local authorities will have to prove they are fixing potholes or face losing their highways maintenance funding.
From mid April councils will start to receive their share of the government’s £1.6bn highway maintenance funding, including an extra £500m – enough to fill 7 million potholes a year.
But to get the full amount, all councils in England must from today publish annual progress reports on their pothole filling.Local authorities who fail to meet these strict conditi