Road conditions in England to March 2020 and March 2021
Road condition statistics on local authority roads and Highways England managed roads in England.
Applies to England
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Information on the condition of roads in England, as well as other aspects of highways maintenance in the years to March 2020 and March 2021.
The data comes from multiple sources including National Highways (formerly Highways England) and local authorities. Some data from local authorities form part of the Single Data List, making the provision of data a mandatory requirement.
In the period ending March 2021, local authorities in England reported that:
- 4% of their ‘A’ road network
- 6% of their ‘B’ and ‘C’ road network
- 17% of their unclassified road network
were categorised as red (should have been considered for maintenance).
Of the roads managed by National Highways:
- 4% of motorways
- 7% of ‘A’ roads
should have been considered for maintenance in period ending March 2021.
Local authorities provided data on a voluntary basis for their amber and green roads for the financial years ending 2020 and 2021. This information was published for ‘A’ roads for the first time in the 2019 release. Where local authorities have provided this information for 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021, this has been included for ‘A’ roads alongside experimental statistics for ‘B’ and ‘C’ roads.
The statistical release does not present maintenance expenditure statistics for 2020 to 2021. This is because the source data for local roads had not been published at the point of production of this release. We are planning to publish an update of maintenance expenditure information alongside ‘Transport Statistics Great Britain 2021’.
Alongside these official statistics, new experimental statistics have also been published in ‘Experimental Statistics: Local Road Condition SCANNER data report, April 2017 to March 2021’, April 2017 to March 2021. This uses the underlying SCANNER data from local authorities to provide more granular analysis of road condition.
An new interactive map has been published alongside this release. It presents information at road level on the condition of local authority managed classified (‘A’ roads, ‘B’ and ‘C’ roads), by condition category. This covers 2 time periods with data shown on the map for specific LAs, where this was available, in 2017 to 2019 and 2019 to 2021 respectively.
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