Wokingham Borough Council is asking residents to tell them where the potholes are on their roads.
Potholes typically worsen in winter because the freeze‑thaw cycle makes water trapped in cracks expand and contract, weakening the road surface until holes form under traffic.
Cllr Adrian Betteridge, executive member for active transport, said:
“The council encourages residents to help them by finding the potholes in their street.
“The potholes will get fixed but there’s 500 miles of roads in Wokingham. We need your help.
“Our highway maintenance programme is focused on treatments to seal the roads, which is the most cost-effective way to reduce potholes.
“We were assessed as Green – the top category – for both the condition of our roads and use of best practice in the recent Department for Transport assessment of local authority road maintenance.
“In the current financial year, to 21st Jan, we have undertaken 1,049 pothole repairs. We won’t know for sure until the end of the winter, but the number of reported potholes does not seem any higher than recent years.”
To report the biggest potholes, go to wokingham.gov.uk/roads/report and click “Report Pothole and Road Footway Damage.” Urgent issues can be reported by phone on 0118 974 6000 or, out of hours, on 0800 212 111.
Ted O'Neill, Local Democracy Reporter
