Report a pothole
We are responsible for repairing all public roads, pavements and cycle paths within the borough.
In Swindon, it would take an estimated £142 million to repair all our roads to a ‘like new’ condition. However, limited resources means that in 2025/26 we will spend £5.3 million on highways and pathways.
This includes spending £1.5m on planned maintenance and surface dressing for major carriageways and £1.25m on planned maintenance for minor roads, as well as funding for routine road maintenance, such as £170,000 on reactive pothole repairs. This maintenance also includes, patching repairs, road markings and traffic light maintenance.
We use a standard measurement criteria to categorise road damage and prioritise repairs as follows:
- For a pothole to be considered a safety defect, it must be at least 30mm deep in the road surface. Potholes that are more than 40mm deep are repaired within the next working day. We aim to complete all other pothole repairs within 30 working days, with the majority completed within five working days. Other defects may be programmed for repair over a longer period of up to six weeks.
- For defects less than 30mm deep - a risk assessment is made in line with our Carriageway and Footway Defects Management Plan to determine if the defect is a hazard and if a repair is necessary
If you’d like to learn more about how we manage pothole repairs, visit our question and answer page.
Most potholes are identified by our team of highway inspectors, but we encourage residents to report new road damage they encounter, that we may not know about.
As we do not maintain the A419 or M4, please report any damage to either of these roads to National Highways.
Please only use the link below to report potholes. If you are looking to report a road, footpath or pavement in poor condition (which doesn’t relate to potholes), visit our road maintenance page.
Your online report will be investigated by the team. You’ll receive an automated acknowledgement email with a unique tracking code and then a further email to update you on the outcome of the investigation.