Independent Wiltshire Councillor Terry Chivers is demanding to know why Tory-controlled Wiltshire Council are wasting thousands of pounds on temporary repairs to potholes when they should be making a permanent repair.
“I’m receiving complaints that these temporary repairs only last a few days, and often only a few hours,” he told Marlborough News Online. “It seems to me — and to most people — that it must be much easier and cheaper to do a proper job than bodge it.”
“Only this week I have received complaints that two local jobs have been bodged. And it is being alleged that before a pothole can be filled it has to be measured for its size and depth, if this is the case we will never get on top of the problem.”
Meanwhile, the government has announced it is giving local councils an extra £140 million to repair roads damaged in what has been England’s wettest winter ever.
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