Council bosses have pledged £5 million to fix Liverpool’s potholes.
The city council is set to use profits from the sale of the Municipal Building to help fund extra repairs to roads on top of the existing £3m outlay for the scheme.
Since 2014 a combined £88m has been spent on renovating Liverpool’s highways and footpaths. But council chiefs have warned that a further backlog of £400m is still to be cleared.
A report to the council’s Cabinet on July 21 will recommend that half of its proceeds from the sale of the Municipal Building is used to repair potholes.
Joe Anderson has written to the Department of Transport demanding an urgent review of funding as Government contributions since 2014 has fallen to under £18M.
He said: “The amount we get from Government to repair our roads is chickenfeed compared to the amount we need to spend, which is why we’re being forced to receipts from the sale of our assets to fix potholes.
“But we simply have to bring our roads up to standard because otherwise it will mean the network is not fit for purpose, hitting investment and jobs.
“Despite a 64% a cut to our budget since 2010, we are spending five times more than the Government in road repairs – and that does not include the £250m we are investing in new roads.
“The private sector are playing their part too through major regeneration projects.
“Project Jennifer at Great Homer Street and the Edge Lane Retail Park, to name just two, have leveraged £16m investment in our highways.
“We will keep lobbying Whitehall to secure more funding, but in the meantime we have to do what we can because otherwise the poor condition of our roads could cause a serious accident.”