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Only 3% of English council road network gets maintenance in year, analysis shows

Deniz Huseyin
03 May 2025
 

Only 3% of England’s council-run road network received any form of road maintenance in the 2023/24 financial year, according to analysis of new government data by the RAC.

There are 183,054 miles of council-run road network received in England. Of this, 4,894 miles of all road types were strengthened, resurfaced or preserved in 2023/24, according to RAC’s analysis. This represents an 18% increase (750 miles) in maintenance work compared with the year before (2022/23) when 4,144...

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