Fix our funds to fix our roads

Council agreed again to fill the pothole in our 2023/24 highways funding from Government. An extra £7m of Lincolnshire’s cash is going into our roads.

Your County Views survey responses, FixMyStreet reports, and this campaign is strengthening the case for fairer funding in Lincolnshire.

If you or local businesses have been affected by poor road conditions, tell us. By talking about the impact the lost funding has on you, we can campaign Government together.

We expect there to be further funding cuts in the years ahead so please join our fight for crucial cash by sharing your stories below.

Council agreed again to fill the pothole in our 2023/24 highways funding from Government. An extra £7m of Lincolnshire’s cash is going into our roads.

Your County Views survey responses, FixMyStreet reports, and this campaign is strengthening the case for fairer funding in Lincolnshire.

If you or local businesses have been affected by poor road conditions, tell us. By talking about the impact the lost funding has on you, we can campaign Government together.

We expect there to be further funding cuts in the years ahead so please join our fight for crucial cash by sharing your stories below.

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  • Major roads Major Potholes

    by PG, over 2 years ago
    Yes we live in the countryside with very poor road infrastructure. The major roads are poorly maintained with most A roads having no dual carriageways, so you get on a major road and travel behind lorries that are travelling behind tractors so progress around Lincolnshire is generally slow.


    Its amazing how Lincolnshire can claim poor funding when we see it poorly managed. I have recently seen this when reporting major potholes from Horncastle to Haltham. A full team were sent out to repair a series of holes on one side of the road - EXCELLENT RESPONSE. However one day... Continue reading

  • What repairs !

    by Fenman , over 2 years ago

    I’ve reported my road ( Old Fendyke, Sutton St James) 4 times over the last 6 months only two pot holes have been repaired out of 20. Just this week we’ve had two cars with damaged tyres on consecutive days. Last week we had two cars clip one another because they couldn’t get on there own side. The road is 16 foot wide but in some places it’s reduced to 13 ft, in a few months it will be a single track road. Just 500 yds past us it’s Cambridgeshire and the road is far better, these are just 3... Continue reading

  • B1191

    by WR50, over 2 years ago
    The B1191 between Woodhall Spa and Martin is absolutely treacherous. When the road underwent ‘maintenance’ last year only one very short stretch was resurfaced; the remainder of the road (which was practically unusable at the time) was ignored further and left to become even worse - classic bodge jobs and penny pinching from LCC! The road has completely crumbled away in the middle with new holes opening up every day the size and depth of saucepans. It’s a lethal choice to either hit crater-sized potholes or oncoming drivers - lethal for drivers let alone bikers! It’s impossible to stop and... Continue reading
  • Another £220.

    by William1, over 2 years ago

    . Recently I had an alarm on my BMW warning me of an underinflated tyre. I inflated it to the correct pressure and then did a journey on the motorways. A day later the same warning came up and I found that the same front tyre was again at low pressure. I took the car to a garage in Billinghay and they found a bulge in the side wall and a leak from the rim. I am replacing the tyre this week at a cost of £220. Perhaps I am lucky in that the tyre didn't give way at motorway... Continue reading

  • B1205 Near Gainsborough

    by JC, over 2 years ago

    Driving to work this week at about 7am, when its still dark, and saw a wide lorry coming towards me so I gave it some room. Because it was dark I didn't see these two craters in the road, both of them are the same width as my tyres and a minimum depth of about 5". I hit them that hard that all the lights appeared of the dash. I was only able to travel 1/3 of a mile before I had to stop. I got out and found my front wheel has been bent and my rear tyre is... Continue reading

  • Sticking Plaster

    by LE, over 2 years ago

    I've never known the roads this bad. I live in a rural village and have seen an increase in the volume & noise disturbance of traffic. I accept that farm traffic needs access however not HGVs & quarry lorries that think rattling through at 4/5am is acceptable. I can only assume some of these are cutting through from the A15 to the A52. In one day, whilst working, I did an experiment. & counted nearly 100 different lorries of all sizes. Noisy enough on their own but then...they hit the potholes, the uneven road surfaces & drains. I contacted the... Continue reading

  • Meadow Lane

    by Sue, over 2 years ago

    Meadow Lane Lake is an ongoing problem. Access to my house is just impossible.

    The drainage is the main issue with localised flooding a constant issue.

    The underlying road damage and potholes are shocking not only by the flooding but the whole lane

    The deepest part of the flood is 15" and deepest pothole drop is 8"

    WE have pumped out thousands of litres of water over and over again

    My neighbours wall is sodden, my car is wrecked and pedestrians cannot get through to access footpaths

  • A15 Folkingham

    by RDC Folkingham, over 2 years ago

    We live on the A15 in Folkingham and over the last 15 years there has been no attention given to this section of the road, apart from repeatedly filling in potholes over and over again, despite the fact that the A15 is a key north - south trunk route. We have witnessed a large increase in the number of HGVs with heavy trailers, tractors and farm equipment as well as other traffic. Frequent A1 closures, due to numerous accidents and other events, leads to even more traffic using the A15 as a diversionary route. The road surface has many large... Continue reading

  • Bad Management

    by Richard Barker., over 2 years ago
    From Richard Barker, Chartered Architect, RIBA and retired Director of Tarmac Professional Services.


    LCC look at how you manage the funding you get from Government. Yes a cut in funding does not help, but the waste of money you allow in materials, bad management, poor scheduling of the work, time management of labour and lack of experienced supervision, on site not behind a desk/computer screen erodes public money which adds to the cut in Government Funding. I have seen this mismanagement for myself, in and around Horncastle.

    LCC get your act together rather than blame Government cuts.

  • Bugsy pothole

    by Karan Holland , over 2 years ago
    In 2020 I hit a pothole on little steeping aerodrome , it burst my tyre . So I took some spray cans to it and painted it orange and yellow , someone took a photo of it and I had to admit it was me , I've painted 100s of potholes , been on local news , newspaper like the Sunday times and Skegness standard and on the radio . I've upset the council and ruffled a few feathers but it has had results but they fill in the potholes and it crumbles back out again . This is going... Continue reading
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