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Local road maintenance ratings 2025 to 2026

Published 11 January 2026

Applies to England

Local highways authorities are responsible for maintaining local roads in England.

The Department for Transport has introduced a rating system measuring how well each local highway authority is maintaining its local roads and making use of its increased government funding. This allows local people to see how well their council is maintaining roads in their area.

This page: 

• lists all the local highway authorities in England 
• gives them a performance rating of either red, amber or green - green is the highest and red is the lowest 
• explains what the performance ratings mean in detail, how they will help to improve road condition, and what support is available to local highway authorities to improve their ratings

You can also view a map giving an overview of the ratings by county.

What the ratings mean

The ratings range from green (highest) through amber to red (lowest). They measure how well each local highway authority is maintaining its local roads and are based on 3 areas:

• the current condition of local roads
• how much each local highway authority is spending on maintaining its local roads
• how effectively each local highway authority follows best practice in highways maintenance - for example by using technologies to fix and prevent potholes more efficiently

The ratings are supported by 3 scorecards that measure local highway authorities’ performance in each of these 3 areas.

The ratings are based on data from official statistics and data from the transparency reports that local highway authorities had to publish on their websites. Links to each local highway authority’s transparency report are provided in the table below.

Local authorities with good local road condition, high adoption of best practice, and that invest significantly into maintaining their roads receive a green rating, while those where performance is more mixed or consistently weaker across these areas receive an amber or red rating.

How the ratings help to improve local road conditions

The ratings:

• enable the public to gauge how well each council is maintaining its local roads
• provide an incentive to councils to adopt best practice so that they can improve their ratings and more effectively spend their increased government funding for repairing roads

They also enable the government to identify where councils need to improve and to support them to ensure road condition improves nationwide. 

To access all their £7.3 billion of highways maintenance funding for the period of 2026/27 to 2029/30, local highway authorities will have to continue to publish reports on their roads maintenance work, so that these ratings can be updated and the government can assess how they comply with best practice in highways maintenance.

Further detail on these requirements is set out in the funding for local highways maintenance guidance.

Support available to local authorities to help them improve their ratings

The government will provide red-rated local highway authorities with a dedicated support programme to help improve outcomes. This support will be in the form of peer reviews where sector experts will work with authorities to improve processes and provide practical advice that is tailored to individual authorities’ needs.

2025 to 2026 ratings

For 2025 to 2026, there are:

• 16 green rated local highway authorities
• 125 amber rated local highway authorities
• 13 red rated local highway authorities

Table 1 (below) lists all the local highway authorities and links to the page where they have published their 2025 to 2026 report.

Local highway authority	Overall rating	Condition scorecard	Spend scorecard	Wider best practice scorecard
Barking and Dagenham*	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Barnet	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Barnsley	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Bath & North East Somerset	Amber	Red	Green	Amber
Bedford	Red	Amber	Red	Amber
Bexley	Amber	Green	Green	Amber
Birmingham**	Amber	Amber	No rating	Amber
Blackburn with Darwen	Amber	Amber	Green	Green
Blackpool	Amber	Amber	Green	Green
Bolton	Red	Amber	Red	Amber
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	Amber	Green	Amber	Amber
Bracknell Forest	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Bradford	Amber	Amber	Green	Green
Brent	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Brighton and Hove	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Bristol	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Bromley***	Amber	Red	Green	Red
Buckinghamshire	Amber	Amber	Green	Green
Bury	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Calderdale	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Cambridgeshire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Camden	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Central Bedfordshire***	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Cheshire East	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Cheshire West and Chester	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
City of London	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
City of York	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Cornwall	Amber	Green	Amber	Amber
Coventry	Green	Green	Green	Amber
Croydon	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Cumberland	Red	Amber	Amber	Amber
Darlington	Green	Amber	Green	Amber
Derby	Amber	Amber	Amber	Green
Derbyshire	Red	Red	Amber	Amber
Devon	Amber	Amber	Red	Amber
Doncaster	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Dorset	Amber	Amber	Amber	Green
Dudley	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Durham	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Ealing	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
East Riding of Yorkshire	Amber	Amber	Red	Amber
East Sussex	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Enfield***	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Essex	Green	Green	Green	Amber
Gateshead	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Gloucestershire	Green	Green	Green	Amber
Greenwich***	Red	Amber	Red	Red
Hackney	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Halton	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Hammersmith and Fulham	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Hampshire	Amber	Green	Amber	Amber
Haringey	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Harrow***	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Hartlepool	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Havering	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Herefordshire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Hertfordshire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Hillingdon	Green	Green	Green	Amber
Hounslow	Amber	Green	Green	Amber
Isle of Wight**	Amber	Green	No rating	Amber
Isles of Scilly	Amber	Green	Green	Red
Islington	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Kensington and Chelsea***	Red	Red	Amber	Amber
Kent	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Kingston upon Hull, City of	Amber	Green	Green	Amber
Kingston upon Thames***	Amber	Red	Green	Red
Kirklees	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Knowsley	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Lambeth	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Lancashire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Leeds	Green	Amber	Green	Green
Leicester	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Leicestershire	Red	Amber	Red	Amber
Lewisham	Green	Green	Green	Amber
Lincolnshire	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Liverpool	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Luton	Amber	Amber	Green	Green
Manchester	Green	Amber	Green	Green
Medway	Amber	Amber	Amber	Red
Merton	Amber	Red	Green	Amber
Middlesbrough	Green	Amber	Green	Green
Milton Keynes	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Newcastle	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Newham	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Norfolk	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
North East Lincolnshire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
North Lincolnshire	Red	Amber	Red	Amber
North Northamptonshire	Amber	Amber	Amber	Red
North Somerset	Amber	Green	Amber	Green
North Tyneside	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
North Yorkshire	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Northumberland	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Nottingham	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Nottinghamshire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Oldham	Amber	Green	Green	Red
Oxfordshire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Peterborough	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Plymouth	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Portsmouth	Green	Green	Green	Green
Reading***	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Redbridge	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Redcar & Cleveland	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Richmond upon Thames***	Amber	Red	Green	Amber
Rochdale	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Rotherham	Green	Green	Green	Green
Rutland	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Salford	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Sandwell	Green	Amber	Green	Green
Sefton	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Sheffield**	Amber	Green	No rating	Amber
Shropshire***	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Slough	Red	Amber	Red	Green
Solihull	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Somerset	Amber	Green	Red	Green
South Gloucestershire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
South Tyneside	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Southampton	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Southend-on-Sea	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Southwark	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
St Helens	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Staffordshire	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Stockport	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Stockton-on-Tees	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Stoke-on-Trent***	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Suffolk	Red	Amber	Red	Amber
Sunderland	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Surrey	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Sutton***	Amber	Red	Green	Red
Swindon	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
Tameside	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Telford and Wrekin	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Thurrock	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Torbay	Amber	Green	Amber	Amber
Tower Hamlets	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Trafford	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Transport for London	Amber	Green	Green	Amber
Wakefield	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Walsall	Amber	Amber	Green	Red
Waltham Forest***	Red	Red	Amber	Red
Wandsworth***	Amber	Red	Green	Amber
Warrington	Amber	Green	Green	Amber
Warwickshire	Amber	Amber	Amber	Amber
West Berkshire	Green	Green	Green	Green
West Northamptonshire	Red	Red	Amber	Red
West Sussex	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Westminster	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Westmorland and Furness	Red	Amber	Amber	Amber
Wigan	Green	Green	Green	Amber
Wiltshire	Green	Green	Amber	Green
Windsor and Maidenhead***	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Wirral	Amber	Amber	Green	Green
Wokingham	Amber	Green	Amber	Green
Wolverhampton	Amber	Amber	Green	Amber
Worcestershire	Green	Amber	Green	Green

Table notes

* The overall rating and best practice scorecard for Barking and Dagenham are based on incomplete carriageway treatment data, which has affected these ratings.

** A spend rating has not been produced for local highway authorities that have separate highways maintenance funding arrangements.

*** The overall rating and best practice and condition scorecards for this local highway authority are based on incomplete road condition data, which has affected these ratings, and how their best practice scorecard was calculated.

Technical information on how the ratings are calculated

Read detailed technical information on the methodology used to calculate the ratings.

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