Through my successful ‘grotspot’ campaign, I get a lot of complaints about potholes. 

We have been firefighting, and we now need a sustainable road maintenance strategy.

I’m hoping that taking everything under a single roof in the new Cumberland Council will see action where it was lacking previously.

We also saw a lot of misrepresentation from the previous political leadership.

The fact is that Cumbria County Council’s highway funding in their final year was +20% on their projections, and that has now passed to Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness Councils.

Pothole funding for Cumbria is the highest level ever – and has increased x10 since the Conservative government introduced it in 2015

In 2022, the Cumbria Conservative group secured an additional £1.2m in the budget for potholes. But the Labour/Lib Dem leadership chose instead to spend it in the south of the county.

Cumberland gives us a chance to reset that imbalance.

I work for you, and I’m determined that we get our fair share. Please do report your potholes, and I’ll try to work with Cumberland to ensure long-lasting repairs, and a sustainable maintenance programme going forwards.