More than 21,000 potholes repaired in Shropshire Council area since last May

In total, 21,263 potholes were tackled between 26 May 2025 and 9 February 2026 – an average of more than 550 every week – with more being repaired every day.

Of these, 1950 have been repaired by the additional pothole repair team set up by the council in June to tackle potholes on rural roads.

As part of efforts to improve the county’s roads, crews from Shropshire Council and its contractors Kier and Multevo are out across the county every day tackling potholes.

And the council’s annual resurfacing and surface dressing programmes also help to improve the county’s roads and prevent potholes forming in the first place.

Since 26 May last year 25 stretches of roads – measuring 61km – have been surfaced dressed, and 41 roads – measuring 51km – have been resurfaced.

David Vasmer, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member for highways and environment, said:

“These figures are really encouraging, and provide further evidence of the work we’re carrying out every day to repair and improve the county’s roads, and the progress that we’re making.

“Hitting the 20,000 figure for potholes repaired is a significant achievement for the new administration, but there are still many more to be tackled and that’s what we’ll do.

“Winter is the time when potholes most commonly appear and it’s frustrating that the very wet and cold winter period has seen an increase in the number of potholes on our roads – a situation faced by councils across the country.

“I want to say a big thank you to all the staff from Shropshire Council and from our partners Kier and Multevo for all their continued hard work – it really is making a difference.”