Potholes still driving residents mad in spite of lockdown

You can hear the bang as cars hit the pothole, say nearby homeowners.

Rab and Anne McLuckie reported a four-inch deep pothole in Queens Road on fixmystreet.com in January and again in March - and are still waiting for Lincolnshire County Council to fix it.

"We parked our car in front of it to stop people driving over it," said Anne. "As well as the noise when the cars bang down, people could damage their car hitting that pothole.

"The pothole was filled last year but it's bad again now."

Homeowners have parked in front of a pothole in Queens Road to stop cars driving over it.

The McLuckie's spoke to Skegnes Town Council's Coun Simon Claxton, who said he couldn't understand why, when the roads are quiet because of lockdown, more wasn't being done by Lincolnshire County Council to fix the roads.

"I just feel that, once again, Skegness has been let down by Lincolnshire County Council in the past seven weeks.

"The traffic in Skegness and the surrounding areas has been to a minimum and fixing the potholes would have caused minimum disruption in the town.

"We'll probably have to wait until a bank holiday when they reschedule the work."

This pothole in Queens Road was filled last year but it's bad again, say
homeowners. — This pothole in Queens Road was filled last year but it's bad again, say homeowners.

In January this year, one resident described driving around Skegness as the being on the "surface of the moon".

The Standard asked residents where the worse areas were and Queen's Road came out top, along with "two kneck-breakers" in Church Lane, Winthorpe.

'Bugsy' Karan Holland also began her war on potholes by spray painting them as colourful insects, gaining support and donations of paint from all over the area.

Although £12m had been injected into the highways budget this year, Coun Colin Davie told us it was nowhere near what was needed to bring roads up to standard.

"We will continue to push the Government for fairer funding for Lincolnshire," he said. "If councils here received the average funding for council areas in England, the region would benefit from £116 million of extra funding for services every year – some of which could be used towards highways repairs. That would make a massive difference."

After the latest complaints, we spoke to Lincolnshire County Council who said the authority still welcomes reports of potholes.

"We still have crews out fixing potholes right across the county," he said. To report a pothole visit fixmystreet.lincolnshire.gov.uk.