Recommend a Pothole App

[Heltor Chasca]

Given the vagaries of our local council road teams, can anyone recommend an app for reporting potholes?

Bath and North East Somerset in particular if you have been successful. Thanks.

 

[mjr]

Fixmystreet because it also handles dud lights, flytips, overgrowth and so on.

 

[numbnuts]

Most if not all council websites have somewhere to report holes or try this one
https://www.fillthathole.org.uk/

 

[tom73]

+1 for above. Sadly our council only assess potholes on danger to vehicles or pedestrians.

 

[classic33]

Fixmystreet because it also handles dud lights, flytips, overgrowth and so on.

Two local councils no longer subscribe to that site, so no alert to any problems reported on it.

 

[mjr]

Two local councils no longer subscribe to that site, so no alert to any problems reported on it.

They do not have to subscribe to it - it submits through the patchwork of local council crap apps and then you get the alerts from the council directly. That does mean that people have to reply with FixMyStreet's monthly "is it fixed yet?" questions to update the status, though.

Councils can of course deliberately ignore reports sent through it, but doing so does not protect highways departments from liability under the Highways Acts if damage is then caused as a result of a problem that they ignored the report of, so it's a rather risky strategy. I also suspect that any council ignoring a government-funded app like FixMyStreet is going to ignore CTC's Fill That Hole and other third-party apps.

 

[classic33]

They do not have to subscribe to it - it submits through the patchwork of local council crap apps and then you get the alerts from the council directly. That does mean that people have to reply with FixMyStreet's monthly "is it fixed yet?" questions to update the status, though.

Councils can of course deliberately ignore reports sent through it, but doing so does not protect highways departments from liability under the Highways Acts if damage is then caused as a result of a problem that they ignored the report of, so it's a rather risky strategy. I also suspect that any council ignoring a government-funded app like FixMyStreet is going to ignore CTC's Fill That Hole and other third-party apps.

Launched using government funding, now part of a newspaper. Which is possibly why councils don't subscribe to it.

 

[mjr]

Launched using government funding, now part of a newspaper. Which is possibly why councils don't subscribe to it.

Newspaper?

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Newspaper?

A what? I’ve googled it, but it doesn’t know either.