According to statistics released under a Freedom Of Information Act request to Lancashire County council. Burnley Road in Rawtenstall is the most repaired road in East Lancashire

The Freedom of Information Act request from the Lancashire Telegraph revealed that the 4.7km stretch of road has had a total of 105 pothole repairs in 2020, and records show the same road underwent 92 repairs during 2019.

In the 12 months between November 2019 and the end of October 2020, the county council spent £4 million repairing 18,885 potholes in the Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale and Ribble Valley regions, which had increased from 13,116 repairs in the previous year.

Councillor David Foxcroft, representing the Mid-Rossendale ward, said: “The road is particularly bad on the area from the cemetery to the Tup Bridge crossroads and I am trying to get this area on next year’s resurfacing programme.

“I know that the rest of the road has seen some resurfacing and others have been patched up then resurfaced especially around the Goodshaw area.”

Meanwhile, Lancashire County Council is inviting residents to give feedback on their highways service via an online survey.

County Councillor Keith Iddon, the cabinet member for highways and transport, said that the county’s highways teams had worked incredibly hard during the COVID-19 crisis, especially dealing with the extra damage to the roads caused by the stormy weather earlier in 2020.

“We have been supplementing our techniques to fix potholes with new, innovative methods such as mechanical patching, heated repairs and jet patching. This has helped us to increase the efficiency of our service and fix even more potholes this year,” he said.

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