- Highways
- 29 Sept 2025
Our Highways team in Wiltshire is proud to be supporting Wiltshire Council in its ongoing commitment to improve the condition of roads across the county.
Recently, Wilshire Council announced that the number of potholes reported in the first six months of 2025 has fallen by 44% compared to the same period last year.
Throughout the year, our team has worked collaboratively with the council and supply chain partners to introduce several initiatives to support road defect repairs within Wiltshire’s communities. Key assets such as pothole gangs, Bobcat crews, hand patching teams and spray patching gangs have significantly contributed to our success.
By introducing Bobcats, which offer faster, more sustainable fixes by combining cutting, sweeping and compacting tasks, and similar equipment, we have been able to address issues effectively, enhancing our service delivery.
We’ve also introduced an innovative and interactive suite of reports. These reports have allowed our teams to identify trends and what category potholes are affecting Wiltshire’s roads, making sure we can forward plan and have the correct resources in the right locations at the right time.
Using the reports, our teams are monitoring seasonal and weather-related trends to help identify when we need to increase resource. By sharing these reports with the council, we’ve been able to discuss resource needs on a daily basis and review resources, budgets and trends at monthly meetings. It also has made the communication process more efficient, as our teams have been able to use the reports to find answers to questions that have already been asked.
The reporting suite is supporting us in developing and analysing our future pothole strategy allowing teams to understand prioritise and deliver the repairs efficiently.
Anne Roberts, at M Group Highways, said: “ We’re proud to be working with Wiltshire Council to continually monitor the defect numbers and types reported, to make sure that the most effective resources are used to address each individual road defect.
The monitoring of potholes across the county is allowing us to spend the budgets on the better planned and more substantial work types and be more cost effective in terms of output efficiencies and integrity of the repair, reducing whole life costs.”
Cllr Ian Thorn, Leader of Wiltshire Council, said: “We know that we have much more to do to improve Wiltshire’s roads, but it is clear that our investment and the hard work of our teams is making a huge difference to Wiltshire’s roads.
“Seeing pothole reports fall by 44% in the first half of the year compared to 2024 is a real success story for the council.
"We know how passionate our communities are about potholes, and we share that passion for getting them repaired.
“Every area of the county has seen more repairs and more resurfacing over the past year, and the results speak for themselves. We are committed to maintaining this momentum and improving Wiltshire’s roads.”
