Pothole rating system questioned by councils
Kensington & Chelsea was among three London boroughs branded red under a pothole rating system. The council joins Greenwich and Waltham Forest, with the three boroughs questioning how the pothole rating system works. Kensington & Chelsea said that its red rating was “baffling.”
The three councils were all branded red under the new Department for Transport (DfT) mapping tool, where local authorities in England are rated by a traffic light system in terms of how effectively they spend their road maintenance funding.
“The ratings follow a clear, published methodology, using data from official statistics that local authorities provided themselves,” a DfT spokesperson said.
Waltham Forest was also labelled red, with the council saying that the DfT should “revisit our data and analyse it correctly so that they can accurately represent the situation on the ground.”
Greenwich Council, which also received a red rating by the pothole rating system said that it has concerns about “details of this methodology with the DfT.” The council said it was working with the DfT on this.
Authorities labelled red would be given “dedicated support to bring them into line with best practices,” the DfT said.
“We are shining a light of transparency on the work of councils to fix roads and end the pothole plague,” a spokesperson said. “The suggestion that the department has mishandled or ignored data is categorically untrue.”
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