Cheshire East Council has reached its target of repairing 50,000 potholes across Cheshire East this year.
The Council launched its war on potholes in January this year, as part of its 'Tell Dave' campaign, and has pledged to invest £25m over the next two years.
Successive bad winters and under-investment prior to local government reorganisation has resulted in an abnormally high number of defects.
Councillor David Topping, Cabinet member in charge of roads, said: "I am very happy that we have reached our target of filling 50,000 potholes and would like to thank residents for reporting them to us.
"We faced a huge task in improving the roads but I am delighted to say we are achieving our targets and I hope people can see the improvements. We know we still have more work to do and I encourage residents to continue reporting potholes to us."
Alongside repairing potholes, surface dressing is currently taking place across Cheshire East. Surface dressing is a process using bitumen and chippings which protects roads that have been patched ahead of winter to make repairs last longer. This year's surface dressing will use around 700,000 square metres of bitumen.
Residents can report any defects to Cheshire East's online fault reporting page at www.cheshireeasthighways.org/ReportIt or by phoning the highways team on 0300 123 5020.
Photos: (from r-l) CEC officer Jason Brookes shaking hands with Council Leader Michael Jones and CEC officer Darren Chambers shaking hands with Councillor David Topping, cabinet member in charge of the environment.
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It seems to me that many of the potholes can be attributed to a variety of service businesses which make significant profits. Perhaps they should be making good rather than simply filling in holes after they finish work?
Given how often these businesses dig holes in the roads they would also most likely help to manage the potholes they didn't make too.