Completing a local highways maintenance transparency report

Guidance to help local highway authorities to complete their annual local highways maintenance transparency report. The guidance explains:

• what information authorities must publish

• how to publish the information

• when to publish it

The page also contains:

• a template that authorities must use to compile their report
• a letter to highway authority chief executives setting out the requirements they must meet to qualify for highways maintenance incentive funding

Highways maintenance incentive funding

The Department for Transport (DfT) requires all local highway authorities in England to publish an annual highways maintenance transparency report. These reports help people to understand how an authority is maintaining and investing in their highway networks, including work on potholes and planned maintenance.

DfT uses the data in transparency reports to:

• assess how well local highway authorities are maintaining their roads
• determine eligibility for highways incentive funding