Gedling councillors are appealing for urgent road repairs after a busy main Nottinghamshire road was left littered with ‘crater’ potholes.
The dire condition of the A612 Colwick Loop Road has been showcased in a video made and shared by Conservative Nottinghamshire County and Gedling Borough Councillor Mike Adams on Facebook on Monday (February 16) calling on the County Council to repair the road in his area.
At the time of writing, the video had 34,000 views.
The junction next to the Marks and Spencer’s at Victoria Retail Park, in Netherfield, has been in a deteriorated, crumbling state for around eight, weeks according to Cllr Adams.
In January 2025 the section had temporary repairs where potholes were filled in but speaking on these quick-fixes, Cllr Adams says “you might as well pour Weetabix in it”.
He said: “It’s just deteriorated massively in eight weeks, you can’t drive over it at more than five miles per hour.
“It’s in a braking zone, making it potential dangerous because your vehicle’s out of control.”
The councillor says he has contacted highway officials at the County Council in recent days highlighting the issues and is ‘awaiting updates’.
Councillor Sam Smith (Con), who also sits on the County Council and represents the Trent Valley ward on the Borough Council alongside Cllr Adams, described the potholes as ‘craters’.
He said: “I drive that road every single day, twice a day to and from County Hall – I feel like I’ve fell through the road to Australia and back. It’s atrocious.
“People drive into different lanes to avoid them. They’re definitely category one defects where the County Council has a responsibility to fill them in within 24 hours – that’s not been adhered to.
“It’s causing damage to cars, it’s frustrating to drivers and it’s dangerous. It’s both sides – you get rattled about on the way into Nottingham and rattled about on the way out.”
Cllr Smith said policy under the previous Conservative administration at the County Council was to temporary repair roads within 24 hours but then to return within 90 days to complete a resurfacing section.
One woman, who works at Noble Electrical Contractors in Great Northern Way, said she purposely avoids the potholes in her car.
She said: “I’m going into the right lane which you shouldn’t do. It’s that bad I’d rather go round. If you have to go through it you have to go through at your slowest – even then you can hear it.
“Every time I come to this road I think ‘they’ve definitely got to have fixed it by now’… I don’t understand how this one is not [fixed].
“The weather’s not getting better any time soon, the cold makes it worse and they’re not keeping on top of it. How bad does it need to get?”
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