Information on the condition of roads in England, as well as other aspects of highways maintenance to March 2019.

The data comes from multiple sources including 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 2019, local authorities reported that:

• 3% of the local their ‘A’ road network
• 6% of their ‘B’ and ‘C’ road network
• 16% of their unclassified road network

in England were categorised as red (should have been considered for maintenance). These figures are broadly in line with the previous 3 years.

Of the roads managed by Highways England:

• 4% of motorways
• 7% of ‘A’ roads

should have been considered for maintenance in period ending March 2019.

An updated https://maps.dft.gov.uk/road-conditions-map" class="govuk-link">interactive map has been published alongside this release. It presents information on the proportion of local authority managed ‘A’ roads, and ‘B’ and ‘C’ roads combined, that were categorised as red for the period ending 2019. The map also covers data for earlier years.

For this year’s statistical release local authorities provided data on a voluntary basis for their amber and green roads for the financial years ending 2018 and 2019. For local authorities that provided data, the figures have been published for local authority managed ‘A’ roads in the financial years ending 2018 and 2019.

The statistical release does not present maintenance expenditure statistics for the financial year ending 2019. This is because the source data for local roads had not been published at the point of production of this release. An update of maintenance expenditure information for the financial year ending 2019 will be published in December 2019.

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Information on the condition of roads in England, as well as other aspects of highways maintenance for year ending March 2018.

The data comes from multiple sources including Highways England, Local Authorities, and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government. Some data from local authorities form part of the Single Data List, making the provision of data a mandatory requirement.

In the financial year ending March 2018, local authorities reported that:

• 3% of the local their ‘A’ road network
• 6% of their ‘B’ and ‘C’ road network
• 17% of their unclassified road network

in England should have been considered for maintenance. These figures are in line with the previous year.

Of the roads managed by Highways England:

• 4% of motorways
• 6% of ‘A’ roads

should have been considered for maintenance in the financial year ending 2018. This was an increase from the previous year. However, Highways England reached their (95%) https://www.orr.gov.uk/media/16803" class="govuk-link">performance target for road condition in the financial year ending March 2018, due to an improvement in skidding resistance.

An updated https://maps.dft.gov.uk/road-conditions-map" class="govuk-link">interactive map has been published alongside this release. It presents information on the proportion of local authority managed ‘A’ roads, and ‘B’ and ‘C’ roads combined, that should have been considered for maintenance for the financial year ending 2018. The map also covers data for earlier years.

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Information on the condition of roads in England, as well as other aspects of highways maintenance in the year ending March 2022.

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 2022, local authorities in England reported that:

• 4% of their ‘A’ road network
• 6% of their ‘B’ and ‘C’ road network
• 15% 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 2022.

Local authorities continue to provide data on a voluntary basis for their amber and green roads with data included for the financial year ending 2022. This information was published for ‘A’ roads for the first time in the 2019 release, this has since been expanded to include data for ‘B’ and ‘C’ roads.

The statistical release does not present maintenance expenditure statistics for 2021 to 2022. 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 2022.

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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 https://maps.dft.gov.uk/road-condition-explorer/index.html" class="govuk-link">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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