June 26, 2025
The Department for Transport requires all local highways authorities to publish information about their highways maintenance activities to help local taxpayers see the difference that funding is making in their areas.
Our Highway Network
Nottingham City Council (NCC) manages and maintains adopted highway assets falling within its 825km network. The table below details the highway network that NCC manages:
Lengths of highway, footways and cycleways (km)
| A road | B and C roads | Unclassified roads | Total roads | Footways | Other public rights of way | Cycleways |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82km | 67km | 676km | 825km | 1310km | 90km | 206km |
In addition to the above there are also several other assets that NCC manages as part of the highway assets. This includes but is not limited to 185 key bridges and structures, over 36,395 street lights (managed through a private finance initiative), 167 traffic signalled junctions, 169 pedestrian signals and 37,349 road gullies.
Highway Maintenance Spending Figures
| Year | Capital allocated by DfT (£,000s) | Capital spend (£,000s) | NCC Revenue spend (£,000s) | Estimate of % spent on preventative maintenance | Estimate of % spent on reactive maintenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (projected) | £6,173*** | £6,173*** | £2,032 | 75% | 25% |
| 2024/25 | £3,090 | £3,090 | £1,993 | 61% | 39% |
| 2023/24 | £7,765** | £7,765** | £1,971 | 80% | 20% |
| 2022/23 | £6,256* | £6,256* | £1,671 | 79% | 21% |
| 2021/22 | £2,765 | £2,765 | £1,671 | 62% | 38% |
| 2020/21 | £3,970 | £3,970 | £1,671 | 70% | 30% |
*These figures include additional Levelling Up Funding of £3.50m
**These figures include additional Levelling Up Funding of £5.00m
*** These figures include additional City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement 2 (CRSTS2) Funding (now Transport City Region (TCR) settlement) of £1.8m
Highway maintenance covers many different activities. Below details the typical types of works undertaken in line with the spending figures in the table above.
NCC’s preventative maintenance activities include:
- Structural highway resurfacing programmes
- Preventative highway surfacing programmes
- Planned highway patching programmes
- Capital structures maintenance
- Capital cycle infrastructure maintenance schemes (on and off road)
- City centre streetscape maintenance
NCC’s reactive maintenance activities include:
- Reactive and emergency carriageway repairs – including pothole filling
- Reactive and emergency footpath repairs
- Reactive and emergency structures repairs
- Reactive and emergency drainage repairs
- Gully cleaning
- Signs and road markings maintenance
- Street furniture maintenance
- Cycleways maintenance
- Trash screen clearance
- Winter gritting
- Emergency call out
The table below details the estimated number of potholes (temporary repairs) filled by NCC over the last 5 years:
| 2021/22 | 2022/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,446 | 6,729 | 6,862 | 17,133 | 13,881 * |
* Number of potholes filled (temporary repairs) reduced as a result of increased 1st time permanent highway maintenance repairs and increased planned maintenance.
