Councillor Calum O'Byrne Mulligan, Cabinet Member for Climate Action, Sustainability and Transport, said: "We are aware of the publication of the Department for Transport’s (DfT) new road condition rating system for local authorities. We have raised concerns about details of this methodology with the DfT and we are working with them on this.
"Unfortunately, due to when the data was collected it fails to account for our Getting Things Done announcement made in the autumn to double our investment to £8million for improving our roads and pavements over the next five years. The data we provided to the DfT in June 2025 also only included our direct spend on resurfacing roads and not spend on other important measures like winter gritting, streetlighting and bridges, that we would not ordinarily consider part of road condition works but we understand could be considered in this assessment.
"Since the DfT collected its data last summer, we have resurfaced 21 more roads, completed more condition surveys, appointed a new contractor, as well as doubled our budget. To do this we have matched the much welcomed and long overdue increase in funding from the DfT, which has increased six-fold recognising the chronic underfunding all councils experienced under the previous government. This investment will help us fill hundreds more potholes and more than double the number of roads we fully resurface annually.
"We welcome any support to help us continue to improve our highways and our experience for our residents, so we look forward to working with the DfT and to help it standardise its new rating system and update Greenwich's condition rating accordingly."