Potholes and Roads
Get Burnley and Padiham roads fixed, and keep them fixed.
Bad roads are the single thing residents raise with us most. Cracked surfaces wreck cars, put cyclists in danger and stand as a daily reminder of years of managed decline. Fixing them is where credibility is won or lost.
The problem
Burnley and Padiham’s roads are the responsibility of Lancashire County Council, not the borough. For years the repair backlog was allowed to grow while residents were told their reports had been "logged" and then heard nothing more.
A pothole that is logged but not filled is not a road that has been fixed. Residents can tell the difference, even when the paperwork says otherwise.
What Reform is doing
Lancashire County Council has been run by Reform UK since May 2025. Under the Reform administration the county’s outstanding road-defect queue has fallen from 61,063 in September 2024 to 35,514 in September 2025, a 42 per cent reduction, backed by a record county highways budget.
That is a Lancashire-wide figure. Our job as Burnley’s county councillors is to make sure that effort reaches every part of this borough, from the town-centre streets to the estates and the lanes around Padiham, and not just the roads that are easiest to point at.
What we do locally
When you tell us about a pothole, we report it and then chase it until it is actually repaired. We keep a record, we follow up, and we do not let a job disappear into a system.
Our commitments
- Report every pothole residents flag to us, and chase it through to repair, not just logging.
- Press for Burnley and Padiham to get a fair share of Lancashire’s record highways budget.
- Hold the county to account, in public, on how quickly repairs are actually done.