A million pounds more will be spent on fixing potholes across Stockport over the next year, thanks to a Lib Dem initiative. The amount – borrowed over 25 years – will allow the Council to properly resurface sections of residential roads where there are lots of potholes close together. At the moment we only have enough money to patch them.

Lib Dem campaigner Keith Holloway said “This is excellent news. There are many smaller roads – particularly rat-runs – where potholes are being patched, but more open up soon afterwards simply due to the volume of traffic. This money will allow us to properly resurface the problem sections of many of those roads.”

Because resurfaced roads last longer, the measure saves money in the long run (compared with the cost of going back and re-patching the same stretches of road over and over again). It not only delivers better roads, but a good deal for taxpayers too.