Council repairs over 10,000 potholes in six months

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Since April, Cheshire East Council's highways team has dealt with 10,233 potholes, while patching repairs have extended to more than 80,000 square metres.

Repair work is categorised in three different levels according to the status of the road and the type of vehicle usage.

Level three surface treatment – the most extensive form of treatment and investment – has been carried out at various locations across the borough and Cheshire East's highways team has now treated more than 84 kilometres (52.4 miles) of road surface to this high standard in recent months.

Further carriageway and footway resurfacing works will continue into the autumn.

Councillor Glen Williams, Cheshire East Council deputy cabinet member for environment, said: "I have personally observed some of our gangs at work in Goostrey and Macclesfield and it is extremely impressive to see the professional and efficient way they go about the task of resurfacing our roads to make them safe for our residents and road users.

"I was amazed at how quickly the job is done, so that any inconvenience to residents and road users is minimised.

"The council is investing more than £20m in its highways improvement programme and, as well as road repairs, we are also mending bridges, introducing speed management initiatives and completing the four-year LED street lighting switch."

View the full programme of scheduled works and how it will benefit the roads and footways in your area.

Report a pothole and track its repair here.

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Cheshire East Council, Cheshire East Highways
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Vince Chadwick
Tuesday 25th September 2018 at 8:11 pm
Well, a biggish one down the road from here was repaired after last winter and has recently opened up again bigger than before! And is growing daily now it's lost its top cover.

The 'repair technique' would seem to need re-evaluating. It has to be more cost effective to to implement a robust repair the first time, even though that costs more per visit, than keep going back and doing it again and again using an inferior technique.
Mark Russell
Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 6:46 am
Yet again the council celebrating failure. How about the roads are laid properly with the right surface, and we wont need to fix any potholes. Utter nonsense.
Terry Roeves
Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 2:39 pm
Meaningless numbers, since we don’t know the totals, ie the start points and what is left, even before adding repairs needed to repairs.
Why do CEC waste our money on half story press releases?
Pete Taylor
Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 4:07 pm
Why do they still refer to themselves as Cheshire East Highways when, for about seven years, this has been Ringway Jacobs Ltd?

Does everyone agree that they have done such a splendid job that they deserve to have the contract renewed fo another fifteen years?
Nick Jones
Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 4:48 pm
So whilst they're patting themselves on the back, when are they actually coming to do the job in Wilmslow ??

Macclesfield Rd junction Adlington Road... Green Lane near Cibo,
Gravel Lane near The Jockey... Manchester Rd near Warham St,
Broad Walk.... to name but a few.... I could go on
Deleted Account
Wednesday 26th September 2018 at 6:00 pm
Hi NickJones,

Macclesfield Rd junction Adlington Road... A disgrace and a hazardous one at that.

It's bad enough on four wheels but heaven knows how two wheel users are meant to stay safe .

And it will get only worse when traffic increases from a fully occupied 'Bollin Park ' and 'Heathfield Farm '

Cheshire East should be ashamed.
Ade Whitaker
Saturday 29th September 2018 at 8:16 pm
I agree with Terry - we can't tell if this is a good news story or not without the council providing the total number of potholes that still need repairing.

"We've fixed 10,233 out of a reported 12,000" might be worthy of a self congratulatory press release - or could just be regarded as the council just doing the job we pay them to do.

"We've fixed 10,233 out of a reported 500,000" would give a whole different slant to the story.

A lot of the roads around here are still really bad - so I suspect this is just spin to hide the true extent of the problem. It would be good to know how long the backlog will take to repair.

Let's hope that this winter isn't as bad in terms of new potholes appearing everywhere.
Jon Williams
Sunday 30th September 2018 at 9:11 am
And that's just "reported" potholes