Town hall leaders called on the government to use this year’s Spending Review to deliver a long-term funding plan to ‘save our roads’.
LGA figures show that the amount of money councils have been able to spend on routine road maintenance has fallen from £1.1bn in 2009/10 to around £701m in 2017/18 – a 37% reduction.
Councils having lost 60p out of every £1 in central government funding between 2010 and 2020 and the LGA claims fixing the backlog of potholes will cost more than £9bn and take a decade to complete.
