I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information relating to potholes. Please can you provide the answers in an email response.
1. What is the longest planned time between a logged defect report and actual inspection?
2. What is the longest planned time between agreeing a repair is required and carrying out that repair?
3. What is your process to ensure a road is made safe in under 2 hours from reporting?
4. For driven Section 58 inspections, do you use geolocating to log the position and sizes of potholes?
5. After driven S58 inspections, do you log outcomes in the highways database?
6. For driven S58 inspections, do you regularly record hazards due to vegetation, drainage or poor road signs?
7. What is the largest intervention criteria size of pothole before repair action is taken? i.e. X cm wide, Y cm long, Z cm deep.
8. Aside from reporting defects via FixMyStreet or similar, do volunteers supplement your own officer/ contractor S58 inspections?
9. How many street sweeping machines do you have access to?
10. What proportion of your roads is swept at least every three months?
11. What proportion of non-channel road is swept, ie. at junctions and roundabouts?
12. What proportion of your potholes are filled by your-salaried teams compared with contractors?