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Asphalt Industry Alliance says £18.62bn needed to address repairs backlog

Deniz Huseyin
02 April 2026
Budget shortfall 2025/26: Average carriageway maintenance budget received and average shortfall per authority to meet target conditions (£m)
Budget shortfall 2025/26: Average carriageway maintenance budget received and average shortfall per authority to meet target conditions (£m)
 

Local authorities in England and Wales need a one-off payment totalling £18.62bn to bring the highways network up to a “reasonable steady state”, according to the Asphalt Industry Alliance’s (AIA) latest annual survey. This funding boost  is needed to plug a maintenance budget shortfall, which has risen 89% compared with the 2017 Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey.

Over the last decade the cost of fixing the backlog of local road repairs has increased...

+82% more

 

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