MORE potholes will be fixed first time under a new repairs investment plan by Glasgow City Council.

In the budget this week it was announced by the City Treasurer, Allan Gow, that an extra £9m would go into a £23m Neighbourhood Infrastructure Fund and £13m of it would be spend on potholes and pavements.

This week the Evening Times reported how last year there were more than 20,000 potholes reported to the council across the city.

And the compensation payouts to drivers for damage to wheels and tyres was more than £26,000.

Last year more than £1 million was spent by the local authority repairing the potholes.

Often it is a temporary patching solution that is applied to many potholes which can be quickly damaged again either by heavy traffic or bad weather.

Depending on the seriousness of the pothole, its size and location it is either repaired within 24 hours for the most urgent, five days or 60 days for those deemed low risk.

The new policy is designed to see a 65% reduction in the number of temporary repairs.

The Evening Times Spothole Campaign is for the second year running highlighting the worst of the city’s potholes and calling for action to get them fixed.

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Earlier this month, we told how 1,200 potholes have been reported across Glasgow in the last month.

A total of 1,260 potholes have been spotted during Glasgow City Council’s routine road inspections, while 1,500 have been repaired either ­permanently or temporarily by the local authority’s road teams.

Anna Richardson, the councillor who has responsibility for roads and pavements, said there will be a shift in focus in dealing with repairs.

She said: “We will continue our commitment to neighbourhoods. We will direct much of this into maintaining roads and pavements.

“We will revise policy to fix more potholes first time and reduce temporary patching.”

A recent survey by a motoring website using freedom of Information found that compensation payouts in Glasgow had dropped by 23%

It found on average motorists across the UK received £276, which the organisation said was 40% less than five years ago.In Glasgow it found the figure was £164, which is a 23% drop in five years.