Disclosure Log
Pothole Data (FOI/6143)
Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 19 August 2025
Dear ***** *****,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE FOI/6143
Thank you for your request for information relating to Pothole Data.
We are now able to provide the following information:
- Total Number of Reported Potholes, broken down by:
- Year and Month: From January 2019 to the most recent available data.
| Year | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
| 2019 | 360 | 449 | 568 | 312 | 268 | 506 | 308 | 197 | 186 | 338 | 869 | 1334 |
| 2020 | 1303 | 1603 | 1313 | 152 | 203 | 328 | 302 | 204 | 300 | 212 | 262 | 656 |
| 2021 | 1901 | 2338 | 1857 | 628 | 938 | 559 | 314 | 267 | 193 | 246 | 253 | 503 |
| 2022 | 1118 | 1800 | 2251 | 809 | 622 | 364 | 262 | 275 | 217 | 393 | 1133 | 1421 |
| 2023 | 4941 | 1200 | 2941 | 1976 | 1832 | 764 | 906 | 1050 | 695 | 1130 | 1448 | 3634 |
| 2024 | 4948 | 4825 | 4167 | 2741 | 1549 | 991 | 862 | 606 | 508 | 873 | 739 | 1548 |
| 2025 | 2516 | 2473 | 2036 | 1051 | 762 | 765 | 771 |
- Annual Expenditure on Pothole Repairs, including:
- Total Amount Spent: For each year from 2019 to the present.
- Monthly Breakdown: If available.
- Compensation Claims Related to Pothole Injuries:
- Number of Claims Received: Broken down by year and month from 2019 onwards.
| No of injury Claims Received (1 Jan 2019 to 31 July 2025) | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Total | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 53 | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 55 | |||||||||||||
| 2021 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 60 | |||||||||||||
| 2022 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 52 | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 74 | |||||||||||||
| 2024 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 66 | |||||||||||||
| 2025 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 395 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Number of Claims Approved and Compensation Paid Out: Including total amounts per year and month.
Of the claims received between the 1 Jan 2019 to 31 July 2025, the number of those approved per month and year are shown below:
| No of Claims Approved | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Total |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |||||
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| 2023 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 2025 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 37 |
Of the claims received between the 1 Jan 2019 to 31 July 2025, the amount of compensation paid per month and year are shown below:
| Amount of Compensation Paid | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Total | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | £4,000.00 | £18,000.00 | £4,925.00 | £6,000.00 | £32,925.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | £1,500.00 | £2,500.00 | £7,609.11 | £9,351.46 | £2,500.00 | £5,102.40 | £8,500.00 | £6,463.88 | £43,526.85 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | £10,000.00 | £5,130.00 | £7,500.00 | £47,000.00 | £3,500.00 | £16,769.93 | £1,500.00 | £91,399.93 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | £2,250.00 | £7,980.00 | £9,000.00 | £5,000.00 | £24,230.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | £10,060.00 | £2,300.00 | £8,410.00 | £2,450.00 | £23,220.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | £3,250.00 | £3,750.00 | £7,000.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | £0.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | £222,301.78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Average time taken to repair reported potholes.
| Date | Average number of days to complete |
| April 2023 – end of 2023 | 1.42 days |
| 2024 | 1.12 days |
| 2025 | 1.02 days |
| Overall average | 1.17 days |
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/6143 and we will be happy to review your request
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