Disclosure Log

State of Roads in Gedling (FOI/7195)

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 03 March 2026

Dear ********* ******,

 

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE FOI/7195

Thank you for your request for information relating to State of Roads in Gedling.

We are now able to provide the following information:

1. How many Pot Hole Reports remain outstanding to be resolved in the Gedling area
There are 1,388 ad hoc inspections in Gedling Borough that have created from customer reports with a subject of either carriageway pothole or footway pothole.
 
Please note that this figure will continually change as inspections are completed and new reports are received.

Also note that some inspections may be placed “on hold” if the reported defect relates to third-party apparatus. For example, a customer may report a pothole, but the damage could be the responsibility of a utility company. In these cases, we are required to pass the issue to the relevant utility provider, and an inspection may remain open until we receive their response.

2. What is the longest report outstanding
After careful consideration, Nottinghamshire County Council are exempting this question under Section (12) Cost of compliance would exceed appropriate limit. The information you have requested is not held in a reportable format and would require a manual review of individual pothole reports to identify the relevant date. We currently hold between approximately 50,000-100,000 pothole reports that would need to be manually examined. We estimate it would take one member of staff approximately 2 minutes to check the reports meaning this would take us over the 18 hour limit. 

3. How many pot holes have been filled in the last 12 months v the amount of pot holes reported –
The below information is for 2025 and is Countywide.
 
Customer reports for ‘Carriageway Pothole’

 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
20252516247320361051762765771 58374281618114385
 
Customer reports for ‘Footway Pothole’
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025523348394447683335382655

Category 1 Potholes Repaired
 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025398345302551174610731299113994195796813932662

 
Please note that we find that the term "pothole" is used by the public to cover a range of concerns, from surface crazing and ride quality to actual defects. As many of these concerns do not transpire to what we identify as potholes, we are providing data on jobs created specific to where a void has formed in the surface that requires a high priority (Cat 1) response in accordance with Nottinghamshire County Council Highway Inspection and Risk Manual (https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/1729316/highwayinspectionriskmanual.pdf).


4. How much money has been spend on pot hole repairs in FY24 and FY25 YTD
We are unable to provide pothole specific spend data as pothole repairs are costed to a general maintenance budget for the whole county, jobs are not costed on a job-by-job basis or location specific for reactive maintenance repairs.

5. How many pot holes repairs have been re-reported within 3 months of the initial repair
This information is not recorded.

We trust this now satisfies your request and that you find this information to be helpful, however if you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled, then please email us at [email protected] quoting the reference FOI/7195 and we will be happy to review your request

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I confirm that the authority holds information falling within the description specified in your request. However, we estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit has been specified in regulations and for local authorities it is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 2 1/2 working days in determining whether the Department holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting the information. Under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act the Department is not obliged to comply with your request and we will not be processing your request further.

If you were to make a new request for a narrower category of information, it may be that we could comply with that request within the appropriate limit, although I cannot guarantee that this will be the case. You may wish to ask for assistance in narrowing your request. 

Having applied an absolute exemption I am not required to consider the balance of public interest for and against disclosure.