Reform UK's brand new plan for our roads starts now

I have never been more confident that our broken roads will now finally be fixed after over a decade of them being ignored and left to deteriorate.

I have been continuing to meet with Nottinghamshire County Council Leader Mick Barton on a regular basis to discuss road maintenance.

We recently met onsite at the Coxmoor Road / Newark Road junction which is now being resurfaced this week with the roadworks happening at night to minimise traffic delays. This road surface was one of my top priorities to get sorted.

My pothole patrols are also still ongoing. I am out on Saturdays with local residents, Council Leader Mick Barton, and a number of Reform county councillors to observe and report potholes and poor road surfaces en masse.

As the new financial year has started, Reform UK-led Nottinghamshire County Council can now enact their entirely new plan to fix our broken roads.

This plan includes 10 extra permanent fix hotbox crews that will also operate in the winter months for the first time, two JCB Pothole Pro machines coming very soon, a record breaking £122.5million worth of funding for road maintenance, and the reintroduction of preventative measures so that we do not get into this mess again.

We have started our first-time approach to fixing potholes. We have pledged that all potholes across Nottinghamshire will be fixed within 72 hours and won't need revisiting for subsequent repairs. There will be no more bodge-jobs that we have become used to seeing with the previous Tory and Labour administrations.

They will be fixed properly with sections of the road cut out, tack coat applied to help the new material bind, hot mix then poured in of which we are using an improved material, then the material is compressed using a roller or a wacker plate, and finally sealed properly using thermoplastic tape and propane-powered torches.

We have a huge list of roads across Nottinghamshire that will be fixed this year.

This is all part of phase one of our plan to fix our roads. When phase two is announced in the next couple of weeks, there won't be a single county council in the country spending the money on the roads that Nottinghamshire will be doing this year.

The neglect we are used to with our roads has officially ended. No more fudging the budget to get out of repairs and preventative maintenance, residents deserve better and see some pride back in the area.

Previous Labour and Tory administrations left a lack of funding for road maintenance, resulting in hundreds of road surfaces going unrepaired for some time, creating a huge backlog.

They were more interested in wasting taxpayers' money on cycle lanes that almost nobody uses, such as the one the Tories installed on High Pavement in Sutton.

We are now turning things around so we can finally fix our roads. A big thanks to Council Leader Mick Barton for finally taking charge of the situation after decades of Labour and Tory neglect.