Report those potholes. Council announces new hotline and an extra £200.000 for repairs.

According to the council, more than 3,500 households responded to the On the Road to Improvement consultation - the highest ever figure for the borough - with more than 40 per cent choosing potholes among their preferred three priorities out of a list of 14 options.
A new pothole hotline has been launched in a special campaign that will see reported potholes repaired within a target period of seven days.
From the website:

"The council is investing an extra £200,000 this year - almost double the previous year's budget - to repair more potholes more quickly around the borough.

That follows the results of the record breaking On the Road to Improvement consultation carried out by the council last summer, where residents gave repairing potholes as their biggest highways priority.

As part of the blitz, a new highways inspector will now identify potholes and order their repair over a two week period in each of Haringey's 19 wards.

But the council has also set up the new dedicated hotline - on 020 8489 3993 - to enable residents to report potholes anywhere within the borough at any time of the day.

All reports will be followed up by the next working day and all repairs will be made within a target period of seven days. Residents will be notified once this has been completed. Previously the council's target for repairing the least serious potholes was 28 days.

Meanwhile, Haringey will continue to repair those potholes judged to be most serious within 24 hours.

Residents can also report potholes online using our interactive streetscene application or by emailing potholes@haringey.gov.uk.

Cabinet Member for Environment and Conservation, Cllr Brian Haley, said:

"Residents gave us a clear message during the On the Road to Improvement consultation and now we're giving a clear response.

"We've virtually doubled our budget for repairing potholes, appointed a new inspector with the sole job of identifying potholes and getting them fixed, set new targets for making repairs, and introduced a new hotline to enable people to report potholes more easily.

"We're confident that this blitz will make a real impact in improving road conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists, and I hope residents will help us by making use of the hotline and reporting potholes whenever they appear."

The new inspector will start the ward by ward programme in Highgate, where the highest proportion of residents listed pothole repairs as one of their top three priorities in the On the Road to Improvement consultation.

The intensive work will then progress to each ward in the borough in order of the priority residents in each area gave to potholes in the consultation.

Ward councillors will also be invited to join the inspector in a walkabout to help identify potholes and pass on any concerns from residents.

Notes

* The new hotline will be manned from 9am to 5pm within working hours. Outside hours residents will be invited to leave their details and the location of the pothole, and a Haringey Council officer will return their call. "