Via East Midlands were out on Rectory Road in West Bridgford this morning carrying out road surface repairs.
Motorists have suffered weeks of difficult and dangerous driving conditions on the stretch between Musters Road and Bridgford Road.
The road surface has split in places, and potholes which have got bigger each week have to be carefully negotiated to avoid the inevitable damage to vehicles. The road has two pedestrian crossings, regularly used at school times for two primary schools, it’s a bus route and has thousands of vehicles constantly using it.
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The road isn’t on the recently published list of roads due to be repaired after the recent announcement by Nottinghamshire County Council that £1.83m in funding has been released for urgent road repairs across the county. Rushcliffe’s share of this is just 10%.
The Wire contacted Nottinghamshire County Council about the condition of Rectory Road ( and Eton / Musters and Devonshire ) and about Rushcliffe’s share of the cash last week, today repairs were carried out. Devonshire still isn’t repaired.
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Reform-led Nottinghamshire County Council has come under fire in recent weeks due to an abundance of damaged roads and a litany of potholes being left untouched.
There have been 1,586 claims received by the authority related to damage and accidents caused by potholes in the year leading up to 18 February 2025.
Due to some deteriorated areas becoming a “potential threat” to road users, the council says there is an “increased risk” of failing in its legal duty to maintain the highway network if there are accidents.
Council leader Mick Barton said that the authority plans to start the urgent works in the week beginning 9 March.
The council said “recent and prolonged” wet weather over winter has caused “rapid deterioration” to parts of the network.
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The urgent scheme comes before a three-year programme that will start in 2026/27 and will patch, resurface or surface-dress 4.5 million square metres of road – 16 per cent of the total road network.
The nearly £2 million worth of works will be funded by underspends and savings from within the council’s current highways budgets.
Recent highway network surveys show that 15.9 per cent of Nottinghamshire’s roads are in poor condition and require urgent maintenance, while 21.7 per cent are likely to need repairs “soon”.
