Potholes - local government bread and butter

No local councillor would be worth his, or her, salt if potholes did not fill up significant volumes of the inbox. We know very cold weather such as from last year makes potholes worse and creates new ones. Last winter was terrible for many reasons - trains, airports, shopping - and this winter could be bad again. However, as a result from last years pothole misery, Eric Pickles PM (the Conservative Local Government Sec of State) gave councils money to repair potholes.As a result of this extra funding, New Malden neighbourhood committee received £71,000 which was put work straight away. Conservative councillors fed into the local neighbourhood committee and all potholes which residents reported were filled and/or repaired. Not every single pothole can be fixed straight away but we prioritised the most dangerous or troublesome ones to fix first. This may happen once again this year and we need residents to let councillors know straight away so we can put them into our works programme. Please drop us a line or E-Mail us,You can also report it directly to the Council on the call centre number,but remember to ask for a complaint number so that you can check what action is being taken or we can do that for you. call centre number 02085475002