Pothole spending and JCB PotholePro
Case reference FOI2023/01984
Published 22 December 2023
Request
Please advise:
1. How much money your local authority has spent repairing potholes in the financial year 2022/23.
2. Have you made any use of a JCB PotholePro vehicle for your repairs or do you have plans to do so?
3. If you have made use of a JCB PotholePro vehicle, or have plans to do so, please advise what savings (if any) have been achieved, or you expect to achieve.
Response
Please advise:
1. How much money your local authority has spent repairing potholes in the financial year 2022/23.
A. £1,788,046.45
2. Have you made any use of a JCB PotholePro vehicle for your repairs or do you have plans to do so?
A. Balfour Beatty Living Places have carried out trials using the JCB PotholePro vehicle. Discussions around future works are ongoing with Herefordshire Council
3. If you have made use of a JCB PotholePro vehicle, or have plans to do so, please advise what savings (if any) have been achieved, or you expect to achieve.
A. Because Balfour Beatty Living Places have only carried out trials using the JCB PotholePro vehicle, we are unable to provide any data on possible savings across the business at this time.
Documents
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