How highways services are funded
East Sussex Highways is funded by two main sources:
- Revenue funding: From your Council tax, business rates and Government grants
- Captial funding: The money borrowed by the Council or from government grant to invest in the road network
We use revenue funding for safety issues such as blocked drains, potholes and missing road lines.
We use capital funding on improving assets such as renewing the carriageway surface and replacing parts of highway infrastructure. This money cannot be used to fill potholes but can be used to prevent potholes by resurfacing for example.
Facts and Figures
Typically, we repair 30,000 safety defects at a fixed cost of £1.5m per year.
Council Tax and business rates provide £45 per household/business per year for roads maintenance
A pothole of around 0.5m x0.5m typically costs £50 to repair.