Following questions by two Labour Councillors (Ram Lakha and Sucha Bains) at the last Council meeting, we can now reveal the full extent of Coventry’s pothole problem.

We’ve got the “league table” of wards that have the most reported (and repaired) potholes from April 2009 to February 2010. It shows the figures that reveal the astonishing extent of the work that’s had to be done filling holes in Coventry’s roads. In nine months, over 20,000 holes have had to be fixed. And that’s BEFORE this year’s icy weather.

As we revealed before, despite the dire state of our roads, the Tory council REDUCED the amount spent on “patching” from £235,000 to just £49,000 between 2005 and 2008.

Cllr Hazel Noonan, Cabinet Member for City Services may claim to have been pumping money into the roads budget since 2004, but the fact remains – Coventry’s roads are in a worse state now than they were when her party took control of the Council.

There are three questions Cllr Noonan needs to answer:

1. Why was the budget for “patching” reduced by four-fifths between 2005 and 2008?
2. Why is the road maintenance budget now at its lowest for 12 years?
3. Why have you broken a key commitment in your 2004 election campaign?

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