Extra £2.6 million funding to fix Caerphilly County Borough’s potholes

An extra £2.6 million of funding will go towards fixing potholes and resurfacing roads across Caerphilly County Borough.

The council has received the money from the Welsh Government, which will be on top of a £3.6m resurfacing programme already announced by the council for 2026/27 – which itself is part of £10.8m allocated for road maintenance.

Of that money, £739,000 will be allocated to highway resurfacing, a long-term strategy to tackle potholes and road conditions, while individual pothole repairs cover immediate issues. 

The additional funding will allow more areas to be added to the list of planned resurfacing schemes. 

Over the coming weeks, a report outlining the planned use of the new funding will be considered by the council’s cabinet. 

A council spokesman previously said: “In the past two years alone we resurfaced over 400,000 square metres of road surface and repaired in excess of 8,000 potholes.”