Council spending: How do we find out how much they've spent? i.e. roads...

rockit99

I've been travelling from Bounds Green (just about Enfield) into Camden (err Camden) via Haringey for the past three years. For each of those years I've complained about potholes, usually around February/March as they start to appear/reappear.

This year I got an email back from Haringey re potholes near Muswell Hill, that have not been dealt with for those three years. The council gimp 'assured' me that the 'roads are inspected every week'. Clearly he'd never been down the (main) roads I'd been down.

It occurred to me that the councils get enormous sums of money from both the government and from parking fees and fines, all of which, as I understand it, HAS to be used for transport in the borough - by law, in other words.

What I want to know is, where the hell is all this money going (millions!) because it sure aint going on road repair.

Anyone know of a way to find out how these dullards spend our money? Surely we don't need to use FOI requests, after all, it is our money!

Savvy_Sue

Most councils produce free newspapers which may have some of this information in.

failing that, I'm sure they have to publish accounts which are probably on their websites.

The trick is probably in working out which council a particular road is in, and whether it's a council maintained road or a Highways Agency maintained road.