MORE than a thousand potholes were repaired on Kirklees roads over a two week period earlier this month, it has been revealed.

Kirklees Council has confirmed that between January 28 and February 11 its workers were able to repair a total of 1,100 potholes.

It comes as a total of 1,700 potholes were reported to the Council during that same two week period - either by the authority’s safety inspectors or members of the public.

Cleckheaton councillor Kath Pinnock has also been reporting a number of large potholes that have appeared in roads in her ward.

She said: “As ward councillors we regularly check the roads around Cleckheaton and Scholes, just to make sure the Council is aware of any potholes so they can repair them as soon as possible.

“We found some quite large potholes this time - one was so deep I could stand in it with the water covering my boots. We reported about a dozen altogether.”

The Council has trialled different methods in a bid to improve its repairs of potholes with the trial aiming to identify which method would repair potholes to the highest standard and was most long lasting.

Last year it came to the conclusion that the MultiHog a small planing machine was the best.

It is able to remove the damaged road surface from around the pothole, as well as the actual hole that has formed, meaning the Council is less likely to have to revisit the same area twice.

A spokesman said: “The Council is currently using two Multihog mini planers and are continuing to test and evaluate their performance across Kirklees.

“The results of this extended evaluation will be used to inform the decision about the methods the council will use for repairing their roads in the future.”

She added: “The recent winter weather has damaged the road surface, resulting in more new potholes at different locations on our roads.

“To make sure we repair there potholes as efficiently as possible the Multihogs are being supported by 5 teams who are continuing to use the nationally approved hand repair process.”

In 2016/17 Kirklees received £325,000 from the Government’s pothole action fund and repaired 8,712 potholes.

This financial year it received £452,000, repairing potholes at 5,800 locations and resurfacing 30 roads, to help prevent potholes forming in the future.

It expects to be allocated around £400,000 in the 2018/19 round.