The winter weather has certainly taken its toll on our roads, many of the main roads in the area have potholes appearing and some parts are breaking up quite badly. We’ve been reporting them where we see issues but your help is needed. Let us know if any potholes on your street so we can get them reported.

Some work done by the council is sadly already breaking up, we are not sure if this is the quality of the work, but some patching does seem to be deteriorating a bit too quickly – Abbey Rd/Front St mini roundabout is one such example.

We’ve also report problems in Dryburn Road this week and have concerns some of our main roads such as Carr House Drive still have issues.

We recommended funding extra road repairs in the budget but despite the council having over £200 million in reserves, and increasing council tax and us suggesting where additional funding could be found, Labour said no!

We will continue to push for action to fix our roads and pavements.